Ch. 1. The Ideological Partition of Europe -- Ch. 2. The Militarization of Containment -- Ch. 3. East-West Global Rivalries in the Eisenhower Years -- Ch. 4. From Chapultepec to Castro: The United States and Latin America, 1945-1962 -- Ch. 5. The Rise and Fall of Detente, 1962-1979 -- Ch. 6. Regional Rivalries and Cold War Conflicts in the Middle East, 1945-1975 -- Ch. 7. Asia Recuperates from the Ravages of War -- Ch. 8. The Inter-American System Since the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Ch. 9. Africa: The Travails of Independence -- Ch. 10. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire -- Ch. 11. European Unity and Disunity -- Ch. 12. Economic Development and Strategic Evolution in Asia -- Ch. 13. Diplomacy and War in the Middle East -- Epilogue: A World of Nations in the Era of Globalization.