International Relations Since 1945

PART 1: THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLD WAR 1945-53
1. Tensions in the Grand Alliance and the Growing Confrontation, 1945-47
2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945-48
3. Empire, Cold War, and Decolonisation, 1945-53
4. The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948-53

PART 2: COLD WAR: CRISES AND CHANGE, 1953-63
5. Soviet-American Relations: Avoiding Hot Water and the Search for Stability
6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
7. Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies
8. Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds, 1953-63

PART 3: THE COLD WAR OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AND THE RISE OF MULTIPOLARITY 1963-71
9. The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s
10. The Vietnam War
11. Other Regional Conflicts

PART 4: THE DÉTENTE ERA, 1972-80
12. An Era of Negotiations, 1972-73
13. Stagflation and the Trials of Détente, 1973-76
14. Détente in Decline, 1977-79
15. The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80

PART 5: FROM CONFRONTATION TO COMMUNIST COLLAPSE, 1981-89
16. The 'Second' Cold War, 1981-85
17. Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
18. Instability in Latin America
19. The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-89

PART 6: THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD, 1990-2001
20. Europe and the Former Soviet Union
21. US Predominance and the Search for a Post-Cold War Order
22. Stability and Instability in the Less Developed World

PART 7: THE AGE OF INSTABILITY AND CONFLICT: TERROR, ECONOMIC CHAOS AND POLITICAL CHANGE, 2001-11
23. The 'War on Terror' and the War in Afghanistan
24. The War in Iraq
25. Economic Problems in the West and the Economic Rise of China in the East

PART 8: THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY: CHAOS AND CONFUSION IN PART VIII The Age of Uncertainty: Chaos and Confusion in a GLOBALIZED WORLD, 2011-18
26. Conflict and Chaos in the Middle East
27. Threats to the existing Global Order: Instability in the West
28. Threats to the Existing Global Order: Challenges from the East