TY - BOOK AU - VADNEY T E TI - The world since 1945 SN - 0140152210 (pbk.) PY - 1992/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - WORLD HISTORY N2 - The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West-particularly the United States-in a variety of spheres, the emergence and collapse of the USSR, the end of colonial empires in Asia and Africa, and the escalation of wars and other conflicts in the Third World ER -