The End of the Cold War in The Third World

Description

This book examines the end of the Cold War in the Third World, and contributes to ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors.

Relatively little has been written on the end of the Cold War in the Third World: in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. How did the great transformation of the world in the late 1980s affect regional conflicts and client relationships? Who "won" and who "lost" in the Third World and why do so many Cold War-era problems remain unresolved? This volume brings to light, for the first time, evidence from newly declassified archives in Russia, the United States, Eastern Europe, as well as other sources, and systematically explains, from the perspectives of both the superpowers and the Third World countries, what the end of bipolarity meant not only for the underdeveloped periphery, so long enmeshed in ideological, socio-political and military conflicts sponsored by Washington, Moscow or Beijing, but also for the broader patterns of international relations.

In effect, the world witnessed, in the space of a few years several major events: Soviet retrenchment, the bankruptcy of socialist development and the triumph of market economics, the winding down of some regional conflicts and persistence of others, the growing prominence of the North-South divide, the rise of unipolarity and the stirrings of new regional blocs. As this book shows, many of these developments were rooted in tendencies that preceded the Cold War, continued during the Cold War, and, indeed, outlived the Cold War. The Cold War was central to the postwar history of the Third World; it was fought to some extent for, and in the name, of the Third World. This book offers a wealth of new historical records to explain and interpret the problems the Third World faces today.

This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, war and conflict studies, third world and development studies, international history, and IR in general.

Contents

Introduction Artemy Kalinovsky and Sergei Radchenko 1. China’s Changing Attitude to the 3^rd world Chen Jian 2. The Decline in Soviet Arms Transfers to the Third World, 1986-91: Political, Economic, and Military Dimensions Mark Kramer 3. Gorbachev, New Thinking, and the Third World Svetlana Savranskaya 4. The End of Unbreakable Friendship: Soviet Relations with North Korea and the End of the Cold War Sergey Radchenko 5. Satellites of a Satellite? The End of the Cold War in Indochina, 1986-89 Balasz Szalontai 6. The End of the Cold War and Southern Africa Christopher Saunders 7. "Are the Soviets Selling Out?" The USSR and Southern Africa Vladimir Shubin 8. The Media and the end of the Cold War in Southern Africa Sue Onslow 9. The Impact of the Cold War on the Arab-Israeli conflict Dima Adamsky 10. The Failure of Reconciliation in Afghanistan, 1989-92 Artemy Kalinovsky 11. Lebanon and the End of the Cold War Michael Kerr 12. The Missing Cold War? Reflections on the Latin American Debt Crisis, 1979-89 Duccio Basosi 13. Chilean Internationalism and the End of the Sandinista Revolution Victor Figueroa-Clark 14. Brazilian Assessments of the End of the Cold War Matias Spektor 15. The Cuban Drumbeat Piero Gliejeses. Bibliography

Related Subjects

1. Foreign Policy
2. Strategic Studies
3. Small Wars & Insurgencies
4. Cold War Studies
5. Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns
6. War & Conflict Studies
7. African & Third World Politics