The End of the Cold War and the Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict(Cold War History)

This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent scholarship on the end of the Cold War has focused on Europe or bilateral US-Soviet relations. By contrast, relatively little has been written on the end of the Cold War in the Third World: in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. How did the great transformation of the world in the late 1980s affect regional conflicts and client relationships? Who "won" and who "lost" in the Third World and why do so many Cold War-era problems remain unresolved? This book brings to light for the first time evidence from newly declassified archives in Russia, the United States, Eastern Europe, as well as from private collections, recent memoirs and interviews with key participants.a It goes further than anything published so far in systematically explaining, both from the perspectives of the superpowers and the Third World countries, what the end of bipolarity meant not only for the underdeveloped periphery so long enmeshed in ideological, socio-political and military conflicts sponsored by Washington, Moscow or Beijing, but also for the broader patterns of international relations. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, war and conflict studies, third world and development studies, international history, and IR in general.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The End of the Cold War and the Third World Artemy Kalinovsky and Sergey Radchenko 1. Gorbachev and the Third World Svetlana Savranskaya 2. The Decline of Soviet Arms Transfers to the Third World Mark Kramer 3. China's Changing Policies toward the Third World and the End of the Global Cold War Chen Jian 4. The Impact of the Cold War's End on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A View from Israel Dima Adamsky 5. The Failure to Resolve the Afghan Conflict, 1989-1992 Artemy Kalinovsky 6. From Battlefield into Marketplace Balazs Szalontai 7. India and the End of the Cold War Sergey Radchenko 8. Nicaragua, Chile and the End of the Cold War in Latin America Victor Fueroa-Clark 9. The 'Missing Cold War:' Reflections on the Latin American Debt Crisis, 1979-89 Duccio Basosi 10. Brazilian Assessments of the End of the Cold War Matias Spektor 11. Were the Soviets "Selling out?" Vladimir Shubin 12. The Ending of the Cold War and Southern Africa Chris Saunders 13. 'The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale': Media space and the End of the Cold War in Southern Africa Sue Onslow, with Simon Bright