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COPYRIGHT 2008 Professors World Peace Academy
THE GLOBAL COLD WAR
Odd Arne Westad
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
484 Pages, cloth, $20.00
Most histories of the Cold War assume the origins of the conflict can be traced to events immediately after World War II. Typically the authors place the conflict in Europe, and see critical events in the postwar world in places such as Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany. It is refreshing to see a history of the Cold War that is primarily concerned with the developing world. This work concentrates on internationalized conflict in Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East from the end of the second world war to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The orientation of the author is apparent in the first three chapters. The first chapter, appropriately, reviews the policy of the leader of First World. America was the strongest country coming out of the world war and dominated Western decisions. However, to get a sense of long-standing American policy he goes back to Jefferson's concern of the "canaille", the mob, during the French Revolution. The unpropertied members of the mob did not deserve liberty. The future president thought liberty needed private property and hence the fruits of freedom were only for those at...
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