1. The superpowers -- 2. Japan -- 3. China -- 4. World order -- 5. A Third World - and a Fourth -- 6. Western Europe -- 7. Central and eastern Europe -- 8. Yugoslavia and Albania -- 9. The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War -- 10. From Suez to the death of Nasser -- 11. Focus on Lebanon -- 12. Gulf wars -- 13. The Arabian peninsula -- 14. The Indian sub-continent -- 15. The Indo-Chinese peninsula -- 16. South-east Asia and ASEAN -- 17. Afghanistan -- 18. Korea -- 19. North Africa -- 20. West Africa -- 21. From Congo to Zaire -- 22. East Africa -- 23. Africa's deep south -- 24. Russians, Cubans, Chinese -- 25. Canada -- 26. South America -- 27. Mexico and Central America -- 28. Cuba and the Caribbean -- Key to United Nations missions (Map 4.1).