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The Global Cold War

Odd Arne Westad

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

GenresSocial SciencesHistoryModern History

English edition · First published 2005 by Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781139632898

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Editions

11 editions

English

  • The Global Cold War · Cambridge University Press · 2007 · ISBN 9781139632898 This page
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2007 · ISBN 9780521703147
  • Global Cold War · Cambridge University Press · 2006 · ISBN 9781299773196
  • The Global Cold War : Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9780521853644
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139635370
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139637312
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139641616
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139638777
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139649230
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9780511817991
  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781139883252

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