This bibliography was prepared for the Department of Political Science to assist participants in the 28th Air Force Academy Assembly to be held at the United States Air Force Academy on 4 - 8 March 1986. It represents a highly selected portion of the U.S. Air Force Academy Library's holdings on the topic indicated. Contents: General; Latin America; Africa; Middle East/Southwest Asia; East Asia/Pacific.

Analyses superpower competition in the Third World, and contains assessments of the policy options. Demonstrates that competition in the Third World between the U.S. and the Soviet Union has many dimensions: military, political, ideological and economic. Illustrates that the policies of the Soviet Union and U.S. toward the Third World have gone through a considerable evolution during the four decades since the end of the Second World War.

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.