Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s

Jonathan Davis is Associate Professor in Modern European History at Anglia Ruskin University. He has published widely on Soviet history, the Labour Party, and the 1980s. His books include The Global 1980s: People, Power and Profit (2019) and, with Rohan McWilliam (eds.), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2018).

• IntroductionPart 1: The Global EnvironmentChapter 1Rising seas, rising islands: Negotiating development at the dawn of climate diplomacyRuth A. MorganChapter 2A leader in the making: Environmental policy in the European Union during the 1980sStavros AfionisChapter 3Green Globalisation? The Environment vs. Development Debate in 1980s IndiaElizabeth Chatterjee Part 2: Globalisation and NeoliberalismChapter 4Big Bang: London in the 1980sRohan McWilliamChapter 5From Vancouver to Vladivostok: Gorbachev, globalisation and building a Common European HomeMark SandleChapter 6Hong Konger identity and the Global 1980sFu Yuwei and Mark Hampton Chapter 7South Korea and GlobalisationJ. E. Hoare Chapter 8The Australian Labor Party and the New Zealand Labour Party in the Nineteen-Eighties: ‘A Model for Others?’Antony Taylor Chapter 9Was there an alternative? The Irish economy, political leadership, and the dilemmas of Labour in the 1980sRichard Carr Chapter 10Le Cercle, the ‘End of History,’ and the Transatlantic Politics of the 1980sRichard Carr and Bradley Hart Part 3: Politics and SocietyChapter 11‘Like you we sit on the doorstep of the world’s end’: Women’s global peace camps of the 1980sRosa Campbell Chapter 12Feminism in Thatcher’s England: Divisions, Alliances, TragediesLucy BlandChapter 13Soviet Women in the 1980sMelanie IlicChapter 14Human Rights and Transnational NetworksMark HurstChapter 15Brazil’s Indigenous Movement in the Global 1980sAnna Grimaldi Chapter 16AIDS in the 1980s: How AIDS was politicised in domestic and global responsesYoung Soo Kim Chapter 17The Collapse of the Soviet UnionChristopher Read Part 4: Culture and SocietyChapter 18Living in a material world – American popular culture, political realignment, and social change in the 1980sBradley HartChapter 19Fashion, economic reform, and the dismantling of Soviet state socialismNatalya ChernyshovaChapter 20The Globalisation of British FoodDanielle La Scala and Panikos PanayiChapter 21Popular Culture in Australia during the 1980sFrank BongiornoChapter 22Behind NME Lines: the politicisation of the UK music press and its coverage of the Northern Ireland conflictSean Campbell Chapter 23The Cold War in Popular Culture in the East and the WestEdwin BaconPart 5: The Closing Stages of the Global Cold WarChapter 24Reagan, the Sandinistas and the Global 1980s: Illusions and GhostsDavid RyanChapter 25Soviet Policy toward the Third World in the Global 1980sNatalia TelepnevaChapter 26The Cold War and African Conflicts of the 1980sTimothy StapletonChapter 27From the Islamic Revolution to Regional Wars: The Struggle for the Middle East, 1979-1991Guy LaronChapter 28Europe's Nuclear Crisis of the Late Cold WarRuud van Dijk Chapter 29Migration and the Wall: Global Perspectives on the GDRJenny Price Chapter 30Ending with a whimper, not a bang: the quiet end of the Cold WarJonathan Davis