The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times / Odd Arne Westad.

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Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.