

Since then he has divided his time between publishing and international affairs. During the Second World War he worked in Ultra intelligence at Bletchley Park and later attended the Nuremberg trials. The ninth edition has been expanded and updated to take into account the developments of the last ten years, including the ugly incursions of global terrorism the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan the accelerating emergence of India and China as major powers the major political developments in Latin America the march of globalisation the expansion eastwards of the European Union instability in the Middle East and the vexed question of oil and energy supplies.Ībout the Author Peter Calvocoressi, a distinguished figure in the field of International Relations, was born in 1912 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a First in History. It has helped to divert, educate, and inform two generations of political scientists, historians and general readers. First published in 1968, World Politics since 1945 is a classic and authoritative study of contemporary political history.
