TY - BOOK AU - McWilliams, Wayne C AU - Piotrowski, Harry TI - The world since 1945: a history of international relations SN - 1588263479 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - D 840 M363.2005 U1 - 327/.09/045 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Boulder, Colo. PB - Lynne Rienner KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 KW - Política mundial KW - Países en desarrollo KW - 1989- KW - Military history, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Historia militar moderna - KW - Siglo XX KW - Developing countries N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; The end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age -- The Cold War institutionalized -- The Cold War in Asia: a change of venue -- Confrontation and coexistence -- Decolonization in Asia -- Decolonization in Africa -- The middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict -- The communist world after Stalin -- The war in Indochina -- Détente and the end of bipolarity -- Problems of economic development in the Third World -- Africa -- Latin America -- The People's Republic of China and Taiwan -- The Indian subcontintent and Southeast Asia -- Japan, Korea, and East Asian economic development -- The globalization of the economy -- Gorbachev's perestroika and the Soviet Union's retreat from empire -- The nuclear arms race -- Political Islam and the Middle East -- September 11 and its consequences -- Epilogue: the end of the postwar age ER -