Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times de Odd Arne Westad

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

Autor Odd Arne Westad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2007

Considerăm că The Global Cold War reprezintă o schimbare fundamentală de paradigmă în istoriografia modernă, fiind semnată de Odd Arne Westad, profesor de Istorie Internațională la London School of Economics și o autoritate recunoscută în studiul relațiilor sino-sovietice. Spre deosebire de abordările eurocentrice tradiționale, Odd Arne Westad fundamentează această lucrare pe o cercetare vastă care mută centrul de greutate al analizei din Berlin sau Washington către regiunile disputate din Asia, Africa și America Latină. Putem afirma că autorul nu scrie doar o cronică a confruntării ideologice, ci investighează modul în care ideologiile intervenționiste ale celor două superputeri au generat rezistența și resentimentele ce modelează geopolitica actuală.

Structura narativă este una globală, acoperind teatre de operațiuni diverse, de la Etiopia și Angola până la Nicaragua și Indonezia. Relevanța pentru curriculumul de științe politice și istorie este susținută de cele 10 hărți și 15 ilustrații care clarifică dinamica teritorială a conflictelor. Această perspectivă completează viziunea oferită de Cold War de Carole K. Fink, adăugând o analiză profundă a mișcărilor revoluționare din Lumea a Treia, element pe care lucrările generale tind să îl rezume doar la contextul periferic. De asemenea, lucrarea oferă o profunzime analitică superioară față de The Cold War in the Third World de Robert J. McMahon, prin modul în care leagă eșecurile intervenționismului de prăbușirea Uniunii Sovietice și de provocările actuale la adresa hegemoniei americane.

În contextul operei sale, The Global Cold War servește drept piatră de temelie pentru volumele ulterioare precum The Cold War, rafinând temele explorate în Brothers in Arms despre alianța sino-sovietică. Este un text dens, cu un ton academic precis, esențial pentru înțelegerea rădăcinilor istorice ale ordinii mondiale contemporane.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 20789 lei

Puncte Express: 312

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 08-22 mai
Livrare express 24-30 aprilie pentru 7754 lei

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521703147
ISBN-10: 052170314X
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 15 b/w illus. 10 maps
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Adresată studenților și cercetătorilor din domeniul relațiilor internaționale, această carte oferă cheia de înțelegere a modului în care intervențiile externe din secolul trecut au creat conflictele de astăzi. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă globală, părăsind clișeele despre Războiul Rece limitat la Europa, și înțelege mecanismele ideologice care au dus la formarea unor state precum Iranul sau Angola modernă.

Despre autor

Odd Arne Westad este profesor de Istorie Internațională la London School of Economics și un specialist de renume mondial în istoria Războiului Rece și a Asiei de Est. Recunoașterea sa academică este confirmată de prestigiosul Premiu Bancroft obținut chiar pentru The Global Cold War. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără Restless Empire, o analiză a politicii externe chineze, și colaborarea la The Penguin History of the World. Expertiza sa se bazează pe o utilizare riguroasă a arhivelor internaționale, fiind unul dintre primii istorici care au integrat documente din fostul bloc comunist în analizele globale.

Descriere scurtă

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions; 2. The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions; 3. The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations; 4. Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution; 5. The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges; 6. The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa; 7. The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn; 8. The Islamist defiance; 9. The 1980s: the Reagan offensive; 10. The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War; Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse.

Recenzii

'This is a genuinely 'international' history … few genuine research monographs are so wide ranging chronologically and geographically, while also trying to absorb insights from sociology and social anthropology … taken as a whole no historian has dealt with the links between the Cold War so fully, so broadly and so thoughtfully as Westad in this new account … a truly seminal work, whose findings will exercise those researching the Cold War for many years.' Reviews in History
'The Global Cold War is a powerful account of the way in which the third world moved to the center of international politics in the closing decades of the 20th century. Drawing on a stunning multiplicity of archival material, Odd Arne Westad integrates perspectives and disciplines which have, until now, remained separate: US and Soviet ideologies, their politics and the interventions that flowed from both; insurrection, rebellion, revolution and the power of competing models of development, systems of support or subversion (sometimes synonymous) that in part determined their outcome. Westad writes with the combination of clarity, wit and passion that have always characterized his work. This time the canvas is large enough to do full justice to his scholarship and his humanity.' Marilyn B. Young, New York University
'Odd Arne Westad's new book is an extremely important contribution to the historiography of the Cold War. With broad erudition, amazing geographical range, and inventive research in archives around the globe, Westad tells the tragic story of the United States and Soviet Union's involvement in what became the 'Third World'. The newly emerging nations of the 'South' - of Africa, Asia, and Latin America - barely emerged from their humiliating subservience to European colonialism before being dragged by Cold War rivalries into ideologically-inspired upheavals that ended up bankrupting their countries and devastating their peoples. Westad's study enables his readers to integrate the Third World into the history of the Cold War and confronts them with the meaning of intervention in the past for the international system today.' Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
'In a reinterpretation of the Cold War that is as thorough as it is important, Westad places Soviet and American interventions in the Third World at the center of their struggle. Driven by ideology and the need to affirm the rightness of their principles, both superpowers felt compelled to contest with the other in areas of little intrinsic importance. The results were almost uniformly failures, and in the process brought much sorrow and destruction to the Third World. The picture is not a pretty one, but Westad shows that studying it reveals much about the Cold War, and about the current world scene.' Robert Jervis, Columbia University
'Based on prodigious research, this ambitious and wide-ranging book presents the most important account to date of the Cold War in the Third World. Westad's study represents broad-based, international history at its best. He deftly weaves together the tale of world politics writ large with stories about variegated processes of revolution and social change across the Third World. This should prove an indispensable work for anyone interested in the history of the twentieth-century.' Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida
'For the serious student of our times Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War could provide a serious weapon for their scholastic arsenal.' Open History: The Journal of the Open University History Society
'… Westad's work combines sophisticated analysis, insight into the motivations and behaviours of non-Western actors, historical perspective, fair-mindedness and a sympathy for the victims on all sides. Westad's pioneering work in Soviet archives means that his book illuminates better than any other work I have read in English the thinking and motivations of the Soviet leadership and its advisers when it came to the Third World.' London Review of Books
'… Westad presents a finely crafted and immaculately researched study that presents some of the findings from the archives of the former Soviet Union and its communist allies alongside the more familiar American and western sources.' International Affairs
'There are already a number of books on the Cold War, and more are likely as more information becomes available. This work will remain important, however, for shifting the focus away from Europe and North Korea, to the wider world in which the superpower struggle took place. It is well written and draws on a wide range of materials. Many will not agree with all the arguments, but it is a major contribution to our understanding of how the world became as it is.' Asian Affairs
'Westad's brilliant, bitter account, based on prodigious research, is an indictment of the superpowers. They treated the Third World as their playground and left it devastated.' Martin McCauley

Descriere

Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today.