For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace”
afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an …

Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their
rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in …

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of US involvement and the
Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in …

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument
of American power during the Cold War. In this groundbreaking study Roham Alvandi offers …

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the
United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations …

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown
and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the …

Abstract Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt escalate confliict with Japan and Germany before
Pearl Harbor, or did he attempt to avoid war? To what extent did US public opinion influence …

Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar WEB Du Bois
speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of" the color …

'Development'as a 'process of enlarging people's choices' is omnipresent. Constituents of
global society–governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations …

" A critical error lies at the heart of American thinking about counterinsurgency: the
assumption that the US will share common goals, priorities, and interests with a local …