Bücher der Reihe The Making of the Contemporary World

A survey of communism from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the late 1980s. Focusing particularly on the USSR and Eastern Europe this book examines the development of communist rule in historical and analytical terms.

Surveys the contemporary history of the whole Southern Africa region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues.

Discusses the international and national implications of the issue, looking at the way different governments have dealt with it. Taking a number of case studies, for example Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, this book gives an objective introduction to the subject. It includes material on the UN and its response to the refugee 'problem'.

The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years and hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines its origins, course and end.

This book interprets newly available evidence from the Soviet archives and provides a framework for student discussion of relevant issues together with a guide to further reading and research.

This essential new introduction examines why there are still so few women political leaders. It highlights, in particular, the continuing absence of women from leadership positions, and the concentration of women on social\welfare panels.

Describing the most important global developments in economics during the last half century, this comprehensive history covers all geographical regions and considers the effects of the major countries on each other.

Analysing the complex subject of terrorists and terrorism, this text studies the often neglected subject of the terrorists themselves and their psychology in an historical context.

An accessible introduction to the history of European integration that places European unification within a wider political and economic context. This Second edition brings the history of the European Union right up to date.

This provides an interdisciplinary history of the UN and debates the key issues for its future. David J. Whittaker gives a cogent analysis of how the UN addresses today's world problems and how it can adapt for the future.

Pacific Asia has witnessed arguably the most dynamic economic growth and social transformation in the world since 1945. Exploring this extraordinary pace of development this book explains the various factors that lie behind it.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

"Covering the period since 1945 this book looks at the debates, controversies and events that have occured in the field of intelligence and espionage. In this volume, Jefferson Adams places the events and discussions that have sourounded the history of espoinage in their historical context"--

Presents students with an introduction to postwar US foreign policy. This book explores the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment.

Decolonization played a major part in shaping the contemporary world order and the domestic development of newly emerging states in the 'Third World'. This edition looks at contemporary concerns such as the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, 9/11, globalization and the AIDS pandemic.