Description
Book SynopsisRevised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the Cold War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.
Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "Incisive, eminently readable ...McCormick reminds his readers of the unfashionable truths of our time: American domination of the postwar order, the weakness and conservatism of the Soviet Union, the gratuitousness of the nuclear arms race."--'Nation.' "Original, bold, provocative, important."--Robert J. McMahon, 'Reviews in American History'
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Analytic Framework: The World-System, Hegemony and Domestic Power
2. Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1895-1945
3. Cold War on Mary Fronts, 1945-1946
4. The Crisis of the New Order, 1947-1950
5. Militarization and Third World Integration, 1950-1956
6. Hegemony at High Tide, 1957-1967
7. Dissent, Detente, and Decline, 1968-1976
8. The Carter Cold War, 1977-1980
9. The Reagan Cold War and the Future of Hedemony
Bibliographical Essay
Index
