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Paul Thomas Chamberlin is an associate professor of history at Columbia University. He taught for six years at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD from Ohio State University after studying at the American University of Cairo and the University of Damascus, and has held fellowships at show more Yale University and Williams College. His dissertation won the 2010 Oxford University Press prize for the best dissertation in international history. His first book, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order, is an international history of the Palestinian liberation struggle. show less

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The thesis is great: that an entire set of wars across Asia was inextricably linked to the Cold War. Tehy were not simply proxy wars; the combatants had their own reasons for fighting them. But the US and USSR (and then China) used them that way.

The problem is that this is a ton of ground, and so what the book amounts to is potted histories of a lot of conflicts. It's good as that goes, but if you're already got a basic grasp of the history, this is going to fill in gaps more than give you a deep analysis of the wars and their linkages. He could have done more with the topic.… (more)
 
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