ABSTRACT
This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern Africa, South East Asia and India, East Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. It concludes with a sustained analysis of the International System -- the functioning of international organizations and the global role of money and trade.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |85 pages
Decolonisation
chapter |22 pages
General Considerations
chapter |27 pages
Indonesia, Indo-China, and India
chapter |13 pages
The End of Empire
chapter |21 pages
Southern Africa
part |141 pages
East Asia and the Pacific
chapter |20 pages
The Chinese Civil War
chapter |43 pages
The Indo-Chinese Wars
chapter |33 pages
Japan
chapter |43 pages
The Pacific Rim
part |152 pages
The Middle East
chapter |14 pages
The Middle East Setting
chapter |28 pages
Palestine to the Establishment of the State of Israel
chapter |30 pages
The Middle East in the 1950s
chapter |17 pages
The 1967 Six Day War and its Aftermath; the Lebanese civil war
chapter |20 pages
Arab-Israeli Relations since 1970
chapter |19 pages
Oil
chapter |22 pages
Arabia and the Gulf
part |53 pages
The Americas
chapter |39 pages
The Inter-American Political System
chapter |12 pages
The Americas since 1980
part |75 pages
The International System