Remaking the World
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Remaking the World

Decolonization and the Cold War

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Remaking the World

Decolonization and the Cold War

About this book

Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the decolonizing process.

Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post–World War II global order. Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War. Through six carefully selected case studies—India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran—historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernization, the role of the United Nations, the often-outsized influence of regional actors like Israel and South Africa, and seminal post–Vietnam War shifts in the international system. Each of the case studies analyzes at least one geopolitical turning point, demonstrating that the Cold War and decolonization were mutually constitutive processes in which local, national, and regional developments altered the superpower competition.

Chapman describes a picture of the complexities of international relations and the ways in which local communist and democratic movements differed from their Soviet and American counterparts, including their visions for independence and success.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Remaking the World
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Decolonization and the Cold War: Contesting the Global Order
  10. 2. India: The Promises and Perils of Nonalignment
  11. 3. Egypt: The Crush of Arab Nationalism
  12. 4. The Congo: A Moral Defeat in the Heart of Africa
  13. 5. Vietnam: Cold War Crucible
  14. 6. Angola: A Tangled Web in Southern Africa
  15. 7. Iran: A Case of “Occidentosis”
  16. Conclusion
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Series