TY - BOOK AU - McWilliams, Wayne C. AU - Piotrowski, Harry. TI - The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations SN - 9788130904382 U1 - 327 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Viva Books KW - Military history, Modern KW - World politics KW - Developing countries KW - Economic history KW - International relations N1 - 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 subcontinent 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 -