of your Kindle email address below. Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Then enter the ‘name’ part Westad presents the idea that the Cold War is “what the world looks like when…regimes of global intervention take hold” (p. 407), which is probably correct, but those nations that produced the regimes of global intervention are not insignificant, which one might get from Westad’s presentation of the primacy of the Third World. Sigma Theory: Global Cold War is a turn-based strategy game by the creators of Out There that takes place in a future where a world-changing new technology has ushered in a new global cold war. '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. Scholars of contemporary Latin American history, however, have largely neglected this story, generating a collective amnesia on a crucial part of the region’s recent past. Book Description: Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global … George, Jim This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." 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. The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. However, a variety of global conflicts have been subjectively deemed "world wars", such as the Cold War and the War on Terror. For this reason, the view is that the cold war is a tension between two extremes, one on the left and the other on the right. Required reading for MLS 556 Graduate Students only: Saull, R. (2007) Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution, and Superpower Politics. '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. The Global Cold War - October 2005. The Global Cold War is an interesting study of the Cold War which focuses on the conflict outside of Berlin and the rest of Europe. Professor Westad’s new book, The Cold War: A World History, will be published in 2017 by Basic Books in the United States and Penguin in the UK. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisation's collection. 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. Regions of influence on Cold War strategies impacted Algeria, Vietnam, Indonesia, and more are likely as information... 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