Antony Best is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics. He works on modern East Asian international history. His most recent book is British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1923: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance (2020).

Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He works on US foreign policy, the international history of the Cold War, and transatlantic relations. His latest book is Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era (2021).

Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He works on the history of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century. His latest book, co-authored with Laura Robson, is The League of Nations (2023).

Kirsten E. Schulze is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics. She works on the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Her latest book is Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945 (2024).

INTRODUCTION

1. GREAT POWER RIVALRY AND THE WORLD WAR, 1900-17

2. THE SEARCH FOR EUROPEAN STABILITY, 1917-29

3. JAPAN, CHINA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE PACIFIC WAR, 1900-41

4. THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES, 1900-45

5. 'GOOD NEIGHBORS'? THE UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICAS, 1900-45

6. THE PATH TO EUROPEAN WAR, 1930-39

7. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1940-45

8. THE 'FIRST' COLD WAR IN EUROPE, 1945-61

9. ASIA IN TURMOIL: NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-53

10. FROM COLD WAR TO DÉTENTE, 1962-79

11. THE VIETNAM WARS, 1945-79

12. NEUTRALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD WORLD, 1945-2024

13. THE 'DEVELOPMENTAL STATES': JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN, 1945-2024

14. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA: IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM, 1949-2024

15. THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA, 1945-2024

16. AFRICA: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE, 1945-2024

17. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1948-2024

18. THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM, 1928-2024

19. THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE 'NEW WORLD ORDER', 1980-2000

20. THE RISE OF A NEW EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, 1945-2024

21. THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

22. US DECLINE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD?