Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions
- 2 The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions
- 3 The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformations
- 4 Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution
- 5 The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges
- 6 The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa
- 7 The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn
- 8 The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan
- 9 The 1980s: the Reagan offensive
- 10 The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War
- Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse
- Notes
- Index
List of maps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions
- 2 The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions
- 3 The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformations
- 4 Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution
- 5 The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges
- 6 The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa
- 7 The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn
- 8 The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan
- 9 The 1980s: the Reagan offensive
- 10 The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War
- Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse
- Notes
- Index
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- The Global Cold WarThird World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005