Challenges to American primacy, 1945 to the present
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Challenges to American primacy, 1945 to the present
（The new Cambridge history of American foreign relations / Warren I. Cohen, editor, v. 4）
Cambridge University Press, 2015, c2013
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Bibliographic essay: p. 343-355
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The fourth volume of the updated edition explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the security dilemma each superpower posed for the other. This revised and expanded edition incorporates recent scholarship and revelations, carrying the narrative through the years following the end of the Cold War into the administration of Barack Obama. The character of the American political system is explored, including the separation of political powers and the role of interest groups that prompted American leaders to exaggerate dangers abroad to enhance their domestic power. This new edition examines the conditions in the international system from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- General editor's introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. The Cold War: 1. At war's end: visions of a new world order
- 2. Origins of the Cold War
- 3. The Korean War and its consequences
- 4. New leaders and new arenas in the Cold War
- 5. Crisis revolution
- 6. America's longest war
- 7. The rise and fall of detente
- 8. In God's country
- 9. America and the world, 1945-91
- Part II. After the Cold War: 10. The new world order
- 11. The 'war' against terrorism
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.
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