• Preface. Part One: Decolonization. 1. General considerations. 2. Indonesia, Indochina, India. 3. The end of Empire. 4. Southern Africa. Part Two: East Asia and the Pacific. 5. The Chinese Civil War. 6. The Indochinese Wars. 7. Japan. 8. The Pacific Rim. Part Three: The Middle East. 9. The setting, Britain's post-war pursuit of bases, Cyprus. 10. Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel. 11. The Middle East in the 1950s. 12. The 1967 `Six Day' War and its aftermath: the Lebanese Civil War (1975 -90). 13. Arab-Israeli relations since 1970. 14. Oil. 15. Arabia and the Gulf. Part Four: The Americans. 16. The inter-American political system, and attempts to exclude communism. 17. The Americas in, and since, the 1980s. Appendix: The Falklands, and the Antarctic. Part Five: The International System. 18. The nature of, and leadership in, the international system; attempts at collective action through the United Nations. 19. Money and trade in the Western World. Index.

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