A new world order -- All-powerful America -- Western Europe: the benefits of peace -- Yugoslavia : old scores -- Russia after communism -- A running sore: the Arab-Israeli conflict -- The Iraq crisis -- The rise of radical Islam -- A new South Africa -- Africa in trouble -- China: the market revolution -- India and Pakistan -- South America in Turmoil -- Asia in adversity -- The age of terror -- Post-modernism -- Weather warning -- Global entertainment -- An interactive age -- Celebrating the millennium.
Summary
Discover the final decade of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st century, from European Union to the Age of Terror, and from global entertainment to postmodernism.
