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 sections 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.
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.
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 worlds end: Womens global peace
camps of the 1980s
Rosa Campbell
Chapter 12
Feminism in Thatchers 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
Brazils 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
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).
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