The Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change. Upheaval from the top of governments to the bottom of societies saw a new world order begin to emerge. A new form of capitalism redefined global economics on both the right and left as market forces were unleashed. The ideological conflict of the previous four decades petered out as superpower relations improved. A more interconnected world introduced new consumer products and forms of popular culture to societies across the globe. And protest movements saw new battles fought and new alliances forged in an increasingly interdependent world. The Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s brings together specialists from across the world to examine how the decade was shaped by these changes to politics, economics, culture, societies, and protest movements. The Handbook is divided into five parts focusing on the global environment, globalisation and neoliberalism, politics and society, culture and society, and the closing stages of the global Cold War. By taking an international approach to the history of the 1980s, this book offers a wide-ranging and important new perspective of this hugely transformative decade. It will appeal to students and scholars alike as well as all those interested in the political, social, economic, and cultural shifts of the 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).

Introduction Part 1: The Global Environment Chapter 1 Rising seas, rising islands: Negotiating development at the dawn of climate diplomacy Ruth A. Morgan Chapter 2 A leader in the making: Environmental policy in the European Union during the 1980s Stavros Afionis Chapter 3 Green Globalisation? The Environment vs. Development Debate in 1980s India Elizabeth Chatterjee Part 2: Globalisation and Neoliberalism Chapter 4 Big Bang: London in the 1980s Rohan McWilliam Chapter 5 From Vancouver to Vladivostok: Gorbachev, globalisation and building a Common European Home Mark Sandle Chapter 6 Hong Konger identity and the Global 1980s Fu Yuwei and Mark Hampton Chapter 7 South Korea and Globalisation J. E. Hoare Chapter 8 The Australian Labor Party and the New Zealand Labour Party in the Nineteen-Eighties: 'A Model for Others?' Antony Taylor Chapter 9 Was there an alternative? The Irish economy, political leadership, and the dilemmas of Labour in the 1980s Richard Carr Chapter 10 Le Cercle, the 'End of History,' and the Transatlantic Politics of the 1980s Richard Carr and Bradley Hart Part 3: Politics and Society Chapter 11 'Like you we sit on the doorstep of the world's end': Women's global peace camps of the 1980s Rosa Campbell Chapter 12 Feminism in Thatcher's England: Divisions, Alliances, Tragedies Lucy Bland Chapter 13 Soviet Women in the 1980s Melanie Ilic Chapter 14 Human Rights and Transnational Networks Mark Hurst Chapter 15 Brazil's Indigenous Movement in the Global 1980s Anna Grimaldi Chapter 16 AIDS in the 1980s: How AIDS was politicised in domestic and global responses Young Soo Kim Chapter 17 The Collapse of the Soviet Union Christopher Read Part 4: Culture and Society Chapter 18 Living in a material world - American popular culture, political realignment, and social change in the 1980s Bradley Hart Chapter 19 Fashion, economic reform, and the dismantling of Soviet state socialism Natalya Chernyshova Chapter 20 The Globalisation of British Food Danielle La Scala and Panikos Panayi Chapter 21 Popular Culture in Australia during the 1980s Frank Bongiorno Chapter 22 Behind NME Lines: the politicisation of the UK music press and its coverage of the Northern Ireland conflict Sean Campbell Chapter 23 The Cold War in Popular Culture in the East and the West Edwin Bacon Part 5: The Closing Stages of the Global Cold War Chapter 24 Reagan, the Sandinistas and the Global 1980s: Illusions and Ghosts David Ryan Chapter 25 Soviet Policy toward the Third World in the Global 1980s Natalia Telepneva Chapter 26 The Cold War and African Conflicts of the 1980s Timothy Stapleton Chapter 27 From the Islamic Revolution to Regional Wars: The Struggle for the Middle East, 1979-1991 Guy Laron Chapter 28 Europe's Nuclear Crisis of the Late Cold War Ruud van Dijk Chapter 29 Migration and the Wall: Global Perspectives on the GDR Jenny Price Chapter 30 Ending with a whimper, not a bang: the quiet end of the Cold War Jonathan Davis