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The Global Cold War.(Book review)
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International Journal on World Peace
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March 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Professors World Peace Academy. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THE GLOBAL COLD WAR
Odd Arne Westad
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
484 Pages, cloth, $20.00
Most histories of the Cold War assume the origins of the conflict can be traced to events immediately after World War II. Typically the authors place the conflict in Europe, and see critical events in the postwar world in places such as Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany. It is refreshing to see a history of the Cold War that is primarily concerned with the developing world. This work concentrates on internationalized conflict in Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East from the end of the second world war to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in ...
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