1. Introduction
2. The Old Order and Its Destruction
3. Saved by the Korean War
4. The Cold War Years
5. The Vietnam War as Economic Catalyst
6. Re-enter Japan
7. The End of the Cold War, Liberalization, Crisis, and the Financial Crisis
8. China and Its Neighbours
9. Conclusion.

This series is designed to provide a forum and a stimulus for leading scholars to address big issues in world politics in an accessible but original manner. A key aim is to transcend the intellectual and disciplinary boundaries which have so often served to limit rather than enhance our understanding of the modern world.

Each book addresses a major issue or event that has had a formative influence on the 20th century or the 21st century world which is now emerging. Each makes its own distinctive contribution as well as providing an original but accessible guide to competing lines of interpretation. Taken as a whole, the series will rethink contemporary international politics in ways that are lively, informed and - above all - provocative.