World Politics since 1945

Table of Contents List of maps Pt. 1 The Cold War 1 1 The Cold War 1 Pt. 2 The Far East 93 2 Japan 95 3 China 108 4 Korea 149 Pt. 3 Europe remodelled 155 5 Western Europe 157 6 Central and eastern Europe 224 7 Yugoslavia and Albania 262 Pt. 4 The Middle East 305 8 Islam 307 9 Turkey 309 10 The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War 315 11 From Suez to the death of Nasser 335 12 The destruction of Lebanon 346 13 Towards a Palestinian state 364 14 Iran and Gulf Wars 376 15 The Arabian peninsula 405 Pt. 5 South Asia 425 16 The Indian sub-continent 427 17 The Indo-Chinese peninsula 454 18 South-east Asia and ASEAN 471 19 Afghanistan 493 Pt. 6 Africa 505 20 General 507 21 North Africa 509 22 West Africa 525 23 Central Africa 553 24 East Africa 571 25 Africa's deep south 596 26 Russians, Cubans, Chinese 645 Pt. 7 Latin America 667 27 South America 669 28 Central America 706 29 Cuba and the Caribbean 721 Pt. 8 World order 737 30 World order 739 Appendix The sovereign state 800 Index 803