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World Politics Since 1945. 9th ed.

Peter Calvocoressi
Reviewed by By Lawrence D. Freedman
May/June 2009
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World Politics Since 1945 remains one of the best overviews of contemporary international history, full of elegant writing and shrewd judgement.

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Peter Calvocoressi
Longman
2009
856 pp.
1405899387
$60.00

There are some things worth celebrating: World Politics Since 1945 remains one of the best overviews of contemporary international history, full of elegant writing and shrewd judgement. Calvocoressi has just published the ninth edition at the age of 96.