Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-470) and index. Originally published: 2005.
Contents:
The empire of liberty : American ideology and foreign interventions -- The empire of justice : Soviet ideology and foreign interventions -- The revolutionaries : Anti-colonial politics and transformations -- Creating the Third World : The United States confronts revolution -- The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges -- The crisis of decolonization : Southern Africa -- The prospects of socialism : Ethiopia and the Horn -- The Islamist defiance : Iran and Afghanistan -- The 1980s : The Reagan offensive -- The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War.
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