The global crisis from the end of the wr until early 1947. The reconstruction of the world economy --

American diplomacy and Russia --

Great Britain and the new world economy --

Military power and foreign policy --

The future of Germany --

The political economy of Western Europe --

The transformation of Eastern Europe --

Greece and the Middle East: tradition and turmoil --

China: from chaos to revolution --

Korea, 1945-1948: the American way of liberation --

The dilemma of Japan.

From the Truman doctrine to the Korean war. The 1947 crisis: the Truman doctrine and American globalism --

The Marshall Plan, I: foundations of privacy --

Czechoslovakia and the consolidation of Soviet power --

Heir to the empire: the near east and mastery of the world's oil --

The Marshall plan, II: the economics of European restoration --

The failure of the Marshall plan, 1949-1950 --

Military power and diplomatic policy, 1947-1949: definitions and confrontations --

The restoration of Japan --

China: the triumphant revolution.

The Korean war and the limits of American power. Korea: from civil war to global crisis --

Korea: the war with China --

The dilemma of world economic power, 1950-1953 --

Europe and the dilemmas of military power, 1950-1952 --

Eisenhower and the crisis of American power.