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Transforming the world : global political history since World War II /
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Hampshire:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=BjgdBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Transforming+the+world+by+Robbins&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Transforming%20the%20world%20by%20Robbins&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Grasping global history
- Part I: Ending war, building peace. Struggles for mastery ; Policemen meeting ; Outcomes and anticipations
- Part II: 1945-1955: making a cold peace. European alternatives ; The United Nations and the United States ; The Middle East ; South Asia ; East Asia
- Part III: 1955-1965: to the brink and back. Superpowers and subordinates: the Middle East and Europe ; Continental confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khruschev ; Africa: emergences and emergencies ; Asian accommodations
- Part IV: 1965-1975: old patterns and new permutations. Asian variations ; Superpowers challenged ; Security and cooperation in Europe ; Overlapping linkages: a Mediterranean world ; Africa's worlds
- Part V: Coming to conclusions 1975-1989. Europeans: identifying a common home? ; The Middle East: putting its world to rights? ; A question of latitude: 'North' and 'South' ; Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: South Asia? ; East Asia/Pacific: flexing muscles? ; Gorbachev and Reagan: turning point 1985-89
- Part VI: 1991-2011: new world orders? Superpowers: rethinking required ; The Middle East: still at the centre ; Identifying multipolar complexity.