The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Conflicts, 2E,9781592575114

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Conflicts, 2E

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781592575114
ISBN10: 1592575110
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Pub. Date: 2006-05-02
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. But it seems like every time you turn on the TV or pick up a paper there's an update on a conflict or struggle you know next to nothing about. It makes you wish you were a little more worldly ...

Author Biography

Steven D. Strauss is a nationally recognized political analyst, lawyer, and writer. He is also a weekly columnist for USAToday.com and a frequent commentator and media guest who has been featured on CNN, The O-'Reilly Factor, MSNBC, Court TV, the BBC, and ABC News.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Wars of the World
1(38)
The World at War
3(12)
It's a Small World After All
4(1)
War Today
5(4)
A Global Perspective
7(1)
Johnny Got His Gun
8(1)
War---What Is It Good For?
9(4)
War and Poverty
11(1)
War According to the United Nations
11(1)
War and Resources
12(1)
Freedom
13(1)
All We Are Saying
13(2)
East Is East and West Is West
15(12)
Islam
16(3)
The Koran and Jihad
17(1)
Modern Jihad
18(1)
Jihad and bin Laden
19(1)
Afghanistan Ho!
19(2)
Osama on the Move
20(1)
The Gulf War and Its Aftermath
21(1)
Fatwa This!
21(1)
Understanding bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
22(1)
The Embassy and Cole Bombings
23(2)
Never the Twain Shall Meet?
25(2)
The War on Terror
27(12)
September 11 and Its Aftermath
27(1)
The Afghan War
28(3)
Afghanistan Primer
29(1)
The Geneva Accords
30(1)
Emergence of the Taliban
30(1)
The United States Begins to Target Afghanistan
30(1)
Allies and Enemies
31(3)
Allies
32(1)
Enemies
33(1)
Understanding the War on Terror
34(2)
Winning the War
35(1)
Losing the War
36(1)
So Who Is Winning the War?
36(3)
Part 2: The Middle East and North Africa
39(66)
The Middle East Mess
41(14)
A Long Time Ago, in a Land Far, Far Away
42(2)
Canaan, Shmaanan
43(1)
When in Rome . . .
43(1)
Enter the Muslims
44(1)
Zionism
44(1)
Birth of a Nation
45(1)
The Suez War
46(1)
The Six-Day War
47(1)
The Yom Kippur War
48(1)
Peace in Our Time
48(2)
The Campaign in Lebanon
50(1)
The Intifada
50(1)
On to Oslo
51(4)
Death of a Statesman
52(1)
The Song That Never Ends
53(2)
Israel and Palestine Struggle for Peace
55(12)
Major Issues
56(5)
Gaza
56(2)
The West Bank
58(1)
East Jerusalem
59(1)
The ``Right of Return''
60(1)
A Homeland and Security
61(1)
Who's Who?
61(4)
Ariel Sharon
61(1)
Yasser Arafat
62(2)
Mahmoud Abbas
64(1)
Roadmap to Peace
65(2)
Not Easy Indeed
66(1)
Iraq I: The Rise of Saddam Hussein
67(12)
Don't Know Much About History
68(1)
The Rise of Islam
69(2)
Sunni Versus Shiite
69(1)
The British Mandate
70(1)
The Creation of Modern Iraq
70(1)
The Times, They Are A-Changin'
71(3)
Saddam Hussein Emerges
72(1)
So Just Who Is Saddam Hussein?
73(1)
The Iran-Iraq War
74(1)
The Mother of All Battles
75(4)
Countdown to War
75(2)
Operation Desert Storm
77(1)
Postscript
77(2)
Iraq II: Ground Zero for the War on Terror
79(8)
Drumbeat for War
80(2)
Iraq and September 11
80(1)
WMDs
81(1)
War!
82(3)
The Fall of Baghdad
82(1)
Meanwhile, in Other Parts of the Country
83(1)
Mission Accomplished?
84(1)
The Day After
85(2)
The Islamic Republic of Iraq?
85(1)
The Problem
86(1)
Sudan: A Land Divided
87(10)
A Sudan Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
87(3)
Sudan Backgrounder
88(1)
Sudan Piques Their Interest
88(1)
The Dichotomy Emerges
89(1)
Independence Day
89(1)
The Civil War Era
90(3)
Osama bin Laden in Sudan
91(1)
The Slave Trade
92(1)
An End to the Civil War
93(1)
Crisis in Darfur
94(3)
Hot Spots in Northern Africa
97(8)
Egypt's Troubles
97(4)
The Nasser Years
99(1)
Sadat Takes Over
100(1)
The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
101(1)
Egyptians Go to the Polls
101(1)
Algeria Has Its Own Problems
102(1)
Syria Leave Lebanon
103(2)
Part 3: Central and Southern Africa
105(40)
Death Around the Horn
107(12)
Ethiopia
107(4)
Is This Place Coup Coup or What?
108(2)
War and Famine
110(1)
Is This the End of Mengistu?
110(1)
Eritrea Fights for Freedom
111(1)
Somalia
112(7)
All Good Things Must Come to an End
113(1)
Things Get Worse
114(1)
Black Hawk Down
115(1)
Terrorists in Somalia
116(3)
Insanity in West Africa
119(10)
Take, Rattle, and Roll
120(1)
Sierra Leone: Making Kosovo Look Good
121(4)
A Campaign of Systematic Torture
122(1)
Sending Children to War
123(1)
Is Peace Possible?
124(1)
Liberia
125(1)
Senegal
126(1)
Nigeria
127(2)
Struggles in Central Africa
129(16)
The Never-Ending Angolan Civil War
129(2)
Genocide in Rwanda
131(6)
History
132(1)
Setting the Stage for Slaughter
133(1)
The Stage Is Set
134(1)
It Begins
134(3)
Aftermath
137(1)
Burundi
137(2)
The Democratic Republic of Congo
139(6)
Enter the Colonists
139(1)
Mobutu the Corrupt
139(2)
The Kabila Era
141(1)
War
141(1)
Aftermath
142(3)
Part 4: Asia and the Pacific
145(66)
All in the Family: North and South Korea
147(14)
The Korean Conundrum
148(2)
Korea's Conflicted History
148(1)
Korea Is Divided
149(1)
The Korean War
150(2)
Invasion
151(1)
Aftermath
152(1)
Subsequent Skirmishes
152(3)
The Blue House Incident
152(1)
The Pueblo Incident
153(1)
The Tunnels Incident
153(1)
The Tree Incident
154(1)
Are Things Getting Warmer or Colder?
155(1)
The Reconciliation Agreement
155(4)
New Blood in the South
156(1)
While Up North
157(1)
Summit
158(1)
An Axis of Evil
159(2)
Nuclear Nightmare
159(1)
Six-Party Talks
160(1)
Enter the Dragon: China
161(14)
Who Lost China?
162(2)
You Say You Want a Revolution?
162(1)
The Capitalist Revolution
163(1)
China and Taiwan
164(3)
The Renegade Province
165(1)
Taiwan Becomes a Democracy
166(1)
How the United States Fits In
167(1)
China and Tibet
167(2)
The Xinjiang Province
169(1)
China and Russia
170(1)
China and the United States
171(1)
The Old Guard Versus the New Guard
172(3)
Cain and Abel: India and Pakistan
175(12)
The Indian Subcontinent
176(1)
Pakistan Versus India
177(2)
Roots of War
177(1)
Kashmir Becomes a Problem
178(1)
Act Two
179(1)
In Concert with Bangladesh
179(1)
Sikhing Freedom
180(2)
Nuclear Roulette
182(3)
Briefing Book
182(1)
You Started It!
183(1)
The First-Ever Nuclear War?
184(1)
What Does the Future Hold?
185(2)
Religious and Ethnic Animosity in Indonesia
187(14)
The End of Colonialism and the Rise of Democracy
188(2)
Independence Day
188(1)
The Rise of Suharto
189(1)
Revenge of the Sukarnos
190(1)
East Timor Gains Independence
190(3)
The World Takes Notice
191(1)
Change Is in the Air
192(1)
The Plebiscite
192(1)
Papua, a.k.a. Irian Jaya
193(2)
Sulawesi
195(1)
Kalimantan
195(1)
Aceh
196(3)
Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh)
196(1)
Escalation
197(1)
Accord
197(2)
Trouble in Paradise
199(1)
Al-Qaeda and Indonesia
200(1)
More Asian Atrocities
201(10)
Burma's Close Shave with Democracy
202(2)
The Savior?
202(2)
Asia's Hero
204(1)
Trouble in Paradise
204(2)
Islamic Separatists in the Land of Buddha
206(2)
Nepal
208(3)
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
208(1)
Fiddling While Rome Burns
209(2)
Part 5: Europe
211(62)
Trouble in the Stans
213(12)
The Stan Land
213(4)
The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Central Asia
215(1)
Environmental Apocalypse?
216(1)
Uzbekistan and Islam
217(1)
Kazakhstan Has Issues
218(1)
Kyrgyzstan Coup D'etat
219(1)
Turkmenistan
220(1)
Tajikistan Civil War
221(1)
The Future of the Stans
222(3)
The Balkan Mess
225(10)
Break Out Your Scorecard
226(2)
You Say Slavonia, I Say Slovenia
226(1)
Serbia
227(1)
Slovenia
227(1)
Croatia
228(1)
Bosnia
228(1)
The Great Dictator
228(2)
``No One Will Ever Beat You Again!''
229(1)
The Croatian War
230(1)
The Siege on Sarajevo
230(2)
Genocide
231(1)
The Dayton Accords
232(1)
Kosovo
233(2)
Thankfully, the End
234(1)
The Russian Bear
235(16)
Russian History 101
236(5)
The Cold War
237(2)
Detente
239(1)
Postscript
240(1)
I Want to Get Away
241(1)
Orange Revolution in the Ukraine
241(2)
The Orange Revolution
241(1)
Who Poisoned Viktor Yushenko?
242(1)
Chechnya
243(4)
The 1994 War
243(2)
Round Two
245(1)
Russian School Siege
246(1)
More Crises in the Caucasus
247(2)
The Rose Revolution
247(1)
The Dagestan Rebellion
248(1)
The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
248(1)
Russia and the West
249(2)
Putin
249(2)
Northern Ireland Imbroglio
251(12)
The Roots of the Problem
252(2)
Home Rule
253(1)
The Partition of Ireland
254(1)
The Troubles
254(3)
Violence Erupts
255(1)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
255(2)
The Good Friday Peace Accords
257(4)
Meet George Mitchell
258(1)
Pathway to Peace
259(1)
An Agreement Is in Sight
259(1)
The Agreement
260(1)
Postscript
261(2)
Smoldering European Conflicts
263(10)
Madrid Train Bombings
264(1)
London Calling
265(1)
Armenia Versus Azerbaijan
266(2)
Cyprus
268(5)
1974
269(1)
2001, a Cypriot Odyssey
270(3)
Part 6: South America and Latin America
273(34)
Colombia in Conflict
275(10)
A Conflicted History
276(1)
Guerrilla War
277(3)
The Guerillas
277(1)
FARC's Beginnings
278(1)
FARC Gets Serious
278(1)
The Paramilitaries
279(1)
Drugs and Money
280(3)
The War on Drugs
280(1)
The Medellin Drug Cartel
281(1)
The Cali Mafias
282(1)
The Drug Trade Today
283(1)
Peace Efforts
283(2)
Breakdown
283(1)
Peace Talks
284(1)
Hatred in Haiti
285(10)
Haiti's History
286(2)
Land Ho!
286(1)
The Slave Trade
287(1)
Big Brother
287(1)
The Duvalier Era: 1957--1986
288(3)
Papa Doc
288(1)
Baby Doc
289(2)
Election Time
291(2)
The Predictable Coup
292(1)
Operation Restore Democracy
293(1)
The Legacy of Aristide
293(2)
So Just Who Is Aristide, Really?
294(1)
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
294(1)
More Latin and South American Standoffs
295(12)
Castro's Cuba
296(5)
Rebel Yell
296(1)
Fidel Castro
297(1)
Cuba and the United States
298(2)
The Fall of Communism
300(1)
Peru's Problems
301(2)
A Not-So-Shining Path
301(1)
Martial Law
302(1)
Human Rights Abuses
303(1)
Coup of a Kind
303(4)
Ecuador
303(1)
Paraguay
304(3)
Part 7: North America
307(40)
Life in These United States
309(14)
A Star Is Born
310(2)
There They Go Again
310(2)
World War II
312(1)
Fighting the Good Fight
312(3)
Quagmire
312(1)
Guns or Butter
313(2)
The Fifty-Third Hostage
315(2)
The Tiger Meows
315(2)
444
317(1)
War by Proxy
317(2)
Sandinista!
317(1)
Grenada
318(1)
Panama
318(1)
The Once and Future King?
319(1)
A Shameful History
320(3)
Slavery in the United States
320(1)
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
321(2)
Problems for America's Neighbors
323(12)
Viva Mexico!
323(4)
Growing Militarization in Mexico
325(1)
Cocaine, It's Running All Around My Brain
326(1)
Good Cop, Bad Cop
327(1)
Stand Up for Your Rights
327(1)
Paradise Lost
327(3)
Pandora's Box
329(1)
Presidente Fox
330(1)
Oh Canada!
330(5)
New France
330(1)
The Quebecois
331(1)
The Quebecois in the Twentieth Century
332(1)
Lesson Learned
333(2)
Give Peace a Chance
335(12)
Change Is in the Air
336(4)
The Abolition of Slavery
336(1)
Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead!
337(2)
Middle East Peace
339(1)
Northern Ireland
339(1)
The United Nations
340(2)
International Humanitarian Law
342(1)
Going for the Gold
343(1)
A Noble Prize
344(1)
Nongovernmental Organizations
345(1)
Peace in Our Time
345(2)
Appendix A. For More Information 347(16)
Index 363

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