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World conflicts / Patrick Brogan.
- Title
- World conflicts / Patrick Brogan.
- Author
- Brogan, Patrick
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1998.
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- Description
- xviii p., 682 p. : map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Since the end of World War II, over fifty countries around the world have been racked with violence of epidemic proportions: civil wars, armed foreign interventions, terrorist actions, and ethnic conflict. Organized by country, this book offers key statistical data, discusses the historical origins of the tensions, characterizes the parties involved, and examines possible outcomes.--From publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Comprehensive guide to world strife since 1945
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- First American ed. published by Vintage Books in 1990 under title: The fighting never stopped.
- Subtitle on cover: A Comprehensive guide to world strife since 1945.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Africa -- Algeria -- Angola -- Burundi and Rwanda -- Chad -- Congo (Zaire) -- Ethiopia -- Liberia -- Libya -- Morocco -- Mozambique -- Somalia -- Sudan -- Uganda.
- Asia -- Afghanistan -- Bangladesh -- Burma -- Cambodia -- China -- India -- Indonesia -- Korea -- Malaysia -- Pakistan -- Philippines -- Sri Lanka -- Vietnam.
- Middle East -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- The Kurds -- Lebanon -- Saudi Arabia -- Syria -- Yemen.
- Europe -- The commonwealth of independent states -- Cyprus -- Northern Ireland -- Yugoslavia.
- Latin America -- Argentina and the Falklands -- Central America -- Peru -- The drug wars.
- Terrorism -- Modern terrorism -- The Euro-terrorists -- Japan -- Nationalist terrorism -- Arab terrorism -- Forlorn hopes -- A chronicle of terrorism.
- ISBN
- 0810835517
- OCLC
- 41267471
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library