Winning the Third World
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Winning the Third World

Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Winning the Third World

Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War

About this book

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China’s history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China’s efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington’s use of both hard and soft power in the “Global South.”

Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China’s growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note on Romanization
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: The Emergence of a Rivalry, 1919โ€“1950
  11. Chapter 2: The Burdens of Status, 1950โ€“1954
  12. Chapter 3: From Geneva to Bandung
  13. Chapter 4: Advancing the Peace Offensive, 1955โ€“1958
  14. Chapter 5: The Cultural Competition, 1955โ€“1964
  15. Chapter 6: Chinaโ€™s Radicalization and the American Response, 1958โ€“1963
  16. Chapter 7: The Diplomatic Campaign, 1963โ€“1966
  17. Chapter 8: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, 1961โ€“1968
  18. Chapter 9: The Economic Competition, 1962โ€“1968
  19. Chapter 10: Competition and Cooperation, 1968โ€“1979
  20. Conclusion
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index