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List of Maps. Acknowledgements. Preface to the Second Edition.Introduction. 1. From a European to a Global Balance. The last years of theEuropean balance. The global setting. The Far Eastern Question to 1896.German Weltpolitik. 2. Rivalries and Realignments, 1897-1907. China and thepowers, 1897-1900. Britain and the end of the 'Free Hand'. The Russo-JapaneseWar. The Far East, 1905-11. 3. Towards the First World War. Anglo-Germanrivalry, 1907-9. The Bosnian crisis of 1908-9 and its aftermath Agadir, 1911.Tripoli and the Balkan wars. The relations of the powers on the eve of war.4. The First World War. The outbreak of war. Europe at war. The United Statesand the war in Europe, 1914-17 The war, 1917-18. 5. Peacemaking, 1919-1922.The German problem. The League of Nations. The allies and Bolshevism. TheMiddle East after the First World War. The Far East and the Washingtonconference. 6. From the Ruhr Occupation to Manchuria. Europe, 1921-24. Theera of Locarno. The Far East, 1922-31. Japan, China and the powers, 1931-33.7. The New Expansionists, 1933-1950. Japan in search of a policy, 1933-36. Tothe Sino-Japanese War of 1937. Hitler and the German problem. Europe's earlyreactions to Nazi Germany. The Abyssinian diversion 1935. The Rhineland andthe Spanish Civil War. From Baldwin to Chamberlain. 8. Europe, 1938-1940 Fromthe Anschluss to Munich. The united States and Europe, 1933-38. To the Polishguarantee. The Russian Enigma. The outbreak of war and the fall of France. 9.Global War. The Far Eastern Background, 1938-40. Grand strategy and Europe,1940-41. America's entry into the war. The Grand Alliance against the Axis.East-West relations and the end of the Second World War. 10. The Cold War inEurope, 1946-1950. The German question and the start of the Cold War. To theTruman doctrine. Marshall aid. Anglo-American strategic relations. Theformation of Nato. Western strategic planning before the Korean War. 11. NewDimensions to the Cold War. The United States and China at the end of theSecond World War The 'Loss of China'. The Korean War. The war scare of1950-51. The first hints of a 'thaw' and a new international order. 12. WorldRivalries, 1954-1968. The United States and the Far East in the 1950s. TheSino-Soviet dispute. The Vietnam War. Berlin, Cuba and the Test-Ban Treaty.13. The Era of Detente. The American-Soviet-Chinese triangle. The superpowersand detente. The erosion of detente. Towards 'The Second Cold War'. Thegrowing internal problems of the USSR. 14. The End of an Era. Reagan andGorbachev. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism Finale: an'incorrigibly plural' world?.