1st Edition
The Post Cold War World Turbulence and Change in World Politics Since the Fall
Part One: Unexpected Victory 1. From the Truman Doctrine to the Second Superpower Detente: The Rise and Fall of the Cold War 2. Why did we get the end of the Cold War wrong? 3. His Finest Hour?' George Bush and the Diplomacy of German Unification 4. Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War Part Two: After the Fall 5. Learning from history? From Soviet collapse to the ‘new’ Cold War 6. Not just ‘convenient’: China and Russia’s new strategic partnership in the age of geopolitics Part Three: Crisis in the West? 7. Power shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West 8. Beyond the West: Terrors in Transatlantia 9. Still the American Empire 10. Europe – Still between the Superpowers 11. The Rise of Populism and the Crisis of Globalization: Brexit, Trump and Beyond
Biography
Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
"There are few better guides to the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era in international affairs than Mick Cox. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the global politics of the great transition." - O. A. Westad, Harvard University. Author of The Global Cold War and The Cold War: A World History
