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Part I. Study Skills Section: 1. How to use the book; 2. What skills are required for the Examinatin papers; Part II. The United Nations: 3. Structure of the United Nations to include coverage of the roles of the Secretary-General, the Security Council, General Assembly and the roles of individual agencies such as UNESCO, UNHCR, the International Court of Justice; 4. Coverage of UN Convention on Human Rights, UNCLOS and laws against international terrorism; 5. An overview of the development of UN role in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace enforcement; 6. Case Studies of the roles of the above: Secretary-General and the Congo Crisis, Security Council and superpowers, General Assembly and Korean War, International Court of Justice and terrorism, UN and the Environment, UN and UNCLOS; Part III. The Origins of the Cold War After World War II: 7. Introduction to the historical debate on the causes of the Cold War; 8. The legacy of World War II: Yalta and Potsdam; 9. The role and motives of the USSR in Europe after World War II; 10. The role and motives of US involvement in Europe after World War II; 11. The role of US President Truman: the development of the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, the formation of NATO; 12. The role of USSR: the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe, Berlin and the formation of Warsaw Pact; 13. Summary of the Historical Debate; 14. Traditional; Revisionist; Post Revisionist views; Part IV. The Globalisation of the Cold War Outside Europe: 1950-1989: 15. The reasons for the extension of the Cold War outside Europe; 16. Superpower rivalry versus localized conflicts; 17. Case Studies: Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis; 18. Vietnam; Part V. The End of the Cold War; 19. Origins and development of the Sino-Soviet split; 20. Challenges to Communism in USSR and PRC in 1980s; 21. US policy under Reagan and GHW Bush; 22. Reasons for collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989; 23. Reasons for collapse of USSR by 1991; 24. Historical debate on end of the Cold War; Part VI. The Nuclear Arms Race: 1945-1991: 25. The spread of nuclear weapons; 26. The theories behind the use of nuclear weapons; 27. Attempts at control and limitation of nuclear weapons; 28. The historical debate on the role of nuclear weapons in the Cold War; Part VII. The Development of the International Economy 1945-1991: 29. Reasons for growth of the world economy; 30. The role of the USA; 31. The roles of international institutions such as GATT/WTO, IMF and World Bank; 32. Free trade verses protectionism; 32. The Japanese economic miracle; 33. The development of China from 1978; Part VIII. The Developing World: 34. Impact of decolonization; 35. The non-aligned movement; 36. Moves to establish a new international order: Group of 77, OPEC, Brandt Report; 37. The 1980s: Debt Crisis, rise of Tiger Economies, African Famine; decline of OPEC; 38. The case for and against international aid and multi-national corporations in the international economy; Part IX. Conflict in the Post War World: 39. Arab-Israeli conflicts; 40. The rise and impact of religious fundamentalism on regional security; 41. The Indo-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir.