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Young & Kent: International Relations since 1945

Part VI: The Post-Cold War World, 1990-2000

A fascinating overall interpretation of the period is:
Ian Clark, The Post-Cold War Order (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001) and on Globalization.
D. Held and Anthony McGrew (eds.), The Global Transformations Reader (Polity Press, Oxford, 2000).

For security issues see:
M. Kaldor, ‘Old Wars, New Wars and the War on Terror’, International Politics, Vol. 42, no. 4, 2005.

In general on the US policy in the Post-Cold War years see:
Lester Brune, The United States and Post-Cold War Interventions: Bush and Clinton in Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia (Regina Books, Claremont, 1998).
Michael Cox, US Foreign Policy after the Cold War (Pinter, London, 1995).
John C. Hulsman, A Paradigm for the New World Order (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997).
Steven Hurst, The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration (Cassell, London, 1999).
Robert Hutchings (ed.), At the End of the American Century: America’s Role in the Post-Cold War World (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1998).
William Hyland, Clinton’s World (Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999).
Anthony Lake, ‘Confronting Backlash States’, Foreign Affairs (March–April l994).
W. Cohen, America’s Failing Empire, Blackwell: US Foreign Relations Since the Cold War, (Oxford, Blackwell, 2005)
A. Cyr, After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy: Europe and Asia, (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000).
J. Goldgeiger, Power and Purpose: US Policy Towards Russia After the Cold War, (Wasington, Brookings Institutions Press, 2003). 
S. Hoffmann, World Disorders: Troubled Pace in the Post-Cold War Era, (Lanham,MD,,Rowman And Littlefield, 1998).
D. Leebaert, The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory, (Boston, Little Brown, 2002).
T. Nichols, Winning the World: Lesson’s for America’s Future from the Cold War, (Westport, Prager, 2002).
Bruce Cumings ‘Still the American Century’ in Michael Cox, Ken Booth and Tim Dunne eds.; The Interregnum: Controversies in World  Politics, 1989-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) pp. 271 - 299.
G. John Ikenberry ed.; America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2002).
Robert Kagan, Paradise and Power: American and Europe in the New World Order   (London, Atlantic Books, 2003).
Sidney Blumenthal  The Clinton Wars (New York, Farrar.Strauss and Giroux, 2003)

On Russia and the problems of the former USSR:
Leon Aron, Yeltsin: a Revolutionary Life (HarperCollins, London, 2000).
John Dunlop, The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993).
Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998).
Stasys Knezys and Romanas Sedlickas, The War in Chechnya (Texas A and M University, College Station, 1999).
Peter Shearman, Russian Foreign Policy since 1990 (Westview, Boulder, 1995).
Mike Bowker and Cameron Ross (eds)  Russia after the Cold(Longma,n Harlow, 2000)

Many of the main players are yet to produce memoirs but well worth reading on US policy are:
George Bush and Brent Scowcoft, A World Transformed (Knopf, New York, 1998).
James A. Baker, The Politics of Diplomacy (Putnam, New York, 1995).

On Russia:
Boris Yeltsin, The View from the Kremlin (HarperCollins, London, 1994).

While on South Africa see:
F. W. de Klerk, The Autobiography: the Last Trek, a New Beginning (Macmillan, London, 1999).
Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom (Little, Brown, Chicago, 1994).

German reunification at the start of the decade is the focus of a number of works but see especially:
Stephen Szabo, The Diplomacy of German Unification (New York, 1992).
Philip Zelikow and Condoleeza Rice, German Unified and Europe Transformed (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1995).

On the Balkans conflicts:
Christopher Bennett, Yugoslavia’s Bloody Collapse (Hurst, London, 1995).
Ivo Daalder, Getting to Dayton: the Making of America’s Bosnia Policy (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 2000).
Tim Judah, The Serbs (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997).
Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: a Short History (Macmillan, London, 2nd edn., 1996).
Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: a Short History (Macmillan, London, 1998).

While two memoirs on the attempts to settle the Bosnian conflict are:
Richard Holbrooke, To End a War (Modern Library, New York, 1999).
David Owen, Balkan Odyssey (Victor Gollancz, London, 1996).

On European security:
Clay Clemens, NATO and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997).
Andrew Dorman, European Security: an Introduction to Security Issues in Post-Cold War Europe (Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1995).
William Park and Wyn Rees, Rethinking Security in Post-Cold War Europe (Longman, London, 1998).
Trevor Taylor, European Security and the Former Soviet Union (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1994).G. Aybet, European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy, (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000)

On East Asia:
Samuel Kim, North Korean Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, New York, l998).
Russell Ong, China’s Security Interests in the Post-Cold War Era (Curzon, Richmond, 2001).
Li Xiaobang, Interpreting US-China-Taiwan Relations: China in the Post-Cold War Era University Press of America, Lanham, 1998).
Suisheng Zhao, Power Competition in East Asia (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1997).

In the Middle East, on the Oslo peace process and its difficulties:
Andrew Buchanan, Peace with Justice (Macmillan, London, 2000).
Robert O. Freedman, The Middle East and the Peace Process (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1998).
George Giacaman and Dag Lonning (eds.), After Oslo (Pluto Press, Chicago, 1998).
David Makovsky, Making Peace with the PLO (Westview Press, Boulder, 1996).

On conflict in the Gulf:
Said Aburish, Saddam Hussein (Bloomsbury, London, 2000).
Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: the Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (HarperCollins, New York, 1999).
Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict (Faber & Faber, London, 1993).
Dilip Hiro, Desert Shield to Desert Storm: the Second Gulf War (HarperCollins, London, 1992).

And on the changes in southern Africa that accompanied the demise of apartheid:
Walter Carlsnaes and Marie Muller (eds.), Change and South Africa’s External Relations (Thomson, Johannesburg, 1997).
Chester Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa (Norton, New York, 1992).
Timothy Sisk, Democratization in South Africa (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995).
Patti Waldmeir, Anatomy of a Miracle: the End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa (Norton, New York, 1997).