This book uses the agenda of E. H. Carr, and most obviously extends the title of his classic book The Twenty Years? Crisis, as the point of departure to discuss aspects of the world historical crisis from the end of the First World War until the end of the 1990s. This crisis - identified by 80 years[...]

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