01832cam a2200289 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000350008804000180012305000210014108200200016210000250018224501070020725000120031426000550032630000390038150400510042050508440047165000310131565000260134665000440137265100260141670000230144285600770146513834084OSt20210610113930.0050107s2005    couab    b    001 0 eng    a  2005000400  a1588263479 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLC00aD840b.M363 200500a327/.09/0452221 aMcWilliams, Wayne C.14aThe world since 1945 :ba history of international relations /cWayne C. McWilliams, Harry Piotrowski.  a6th ed.  aBoulder, Colo. :bLynne Rienner Publishers,c2005.  axi, 617 p. :bill., maps ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age -- The Cold War institutionalized -- The Cold War in Asia: a change of venue -- Confrontation and coexistence -- Decolonization in Asia -- Decolonization in Africa -- The middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict -- The communist world after Stalin -- The war in Indochina -- Détente and the end of bipolarity -- Problems of economic development in the Third World -- Africa -- Latin America -- The People's Republic of China and Taiwan -- The Indian subcontintent and Southeast Asia -- Japan, Korea, and East Asian economic development -- The globalization of the economy -- Gorbachev's perestroika and the Soviet Union's retreat from empire -- The nuclear arms race -- Political Islam and the Middle East -- September 11 and its consequences -- Epilogue: the end of the postwar age. 0aWorld politicsy1945-1989. 0aWorld politicsy1989- 0aMilitary history, Moderny20th century. 0aDeveloping countries.1 aPiotrowski, Harry.413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000400.html