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    The New World Crisis: Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III
    The New World Crisis: Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III
    The New World Crisis: Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III
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    The New World Crisis: Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III

    By Justin Cahill

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    We live in a time of crisis. In 2014, the dynamic of international affairs and tempo of events suddenly changed. Russia annexed Crimea. China began to press its territorial claims. Islamic terrorists massacred civilians in Ottawa, Sydney, Paris and Copenhagen. The Islamic State began posting one grim video after another of hostages being slaughtered.

    What is the nature of this crisis ? Is it a long stalemate - a second Cold War ? Or has World War III already begun and we are simply living through a ‘phony war’, that calm before the storm as the belligerents settle their positions ?

    This is an overview of the history of the crisis. Unlike traditional histories, it is intended to be a living document which I will regularly update to account for new developments and interpretations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Cahill
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310176838
    The New World Crisis: Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III
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    Justin Cahill

    Welcome to my Smashwords profile.I am a New Zealand-born writer, based in Sydney. My main interests are nature and history.My thesis was on the negotiations between the British and Chinese governments over the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It was used as a source in Dr John Wong’s Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, the standard work on that conflict.I wrote a column on the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley for the Earlwood News (sadly, now defunct) between 1992 and 1998.My short biography of the leading Australian ornithologist, Alfred North (1855-1917), was published in 1998.I write regular reviews on books about history for my blog,’ Justin Cahill Reviews’ and Booktopia. I’m also a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Heckler' column.My current projects include completing the first history of European settlement in Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people and a study of the extinction of Sydney’s native birds.After much thought, I decided to make my work available on Smashwords. Australia and New Zealand both have reasonably healthy print publishing industries. But, like it or not, the future lies with digital publishing.So I’m grateful to Mark Coker for having the vision to establish Smashwords and for the opportunity to distribute my work on it.

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      The New World Crisis - Justin Cahill

      The New World Crisis

      Origins of the Second Cold War and World War III

      by Justin Cahill

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Justin Cahill

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      Please direct all inquiries to Justin Cahill at

      PO Box 108, Lindfield, 2070

      New South Wales, Australia

      or e-mail to jpjc@ozemail.com.au

      Cover: Cartoon by Alan Moir showing Gorbachev mourning over a disintegrating Soviet Union, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 1990. Reproduced by kind permission of Alan Moir, Sydney Morning Herald.

      "But, far more, it [civilisation] requires confidence – confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, and confidence in one’s own mental powers." - Kenneth Clark, Civilisation: A Personal View, British Broadcasting and John Murray, London, 1969, p.4.

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      We live in a time of crisis. That is not something I would have written a year ago, even though recent decades have not been uneventful. There was the climax, then sudden end of the Cold War and fall of the USSR. Then came the brief ‘new world order’, promptly

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