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This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War - and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself - was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. This edition is fully revised to take account of the developments since 1991.

The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this book Dunabin delivers a balanced perspective on the key events and helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of why they happened as they did.

An examination of the post-war independence processes in more than forty colonies in Africa.

Tracing the postwar inter-relationships of all the rim and island nations of the Pacific Basin since 1945, this text includes expanded coverage of China's relationships with Taiwan and tensions between North and South Korea.

This text analyses the installation, development, operation and eventual downfall of its (very different) communist regimes, and the transition to the freedoms and uncertainties of the post-Soviet world.

Combining skilful economic, political and social analysis, this text provides a fascinating insight into the decline of the Soviet Union.

This comprehensive analysis of all UN peacekeeping in Africa combines broad theoretical ideas with careful historical narrative. The book explores the entirety of United Nations military intervention in Africa since its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.

Part of the "Postwar World" series which considers the way in which the world has been shaped in the years since World War II. This text aims to provide a fresh synthesis of the main political, strategic and economic developments in Europe and the USA during the first ten years after the war.

This book presents the only comprehensive survey of the history of the region since 1945. It deals with the communist states of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, but also has coverage of Greece. As an introduction to a complicated area and a complicated history it provides students with a definitive guide to the region.

Tracing the history of Greece in the period 1945-2000, this introduction takes an analytical and chronological approach. Frequent comparisons are made with countries of western Europe and with other Balkan countries, in order to show how Greece converged with Western Europe and in what ways it remained unique or characteristically Balkan.

This volume examines the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries.

This text considers attitudes towards peace and resistance to war, from pre-1945 to 1990. It looks at the opposition to nuclear weapons and testing, the spread of the peace protest, opposition to all forms of militarism, protest against war in Vietnam and more recently the Gulf.