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Book Synopsis
Revised 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 Review
Praise 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 Contents

Foreword
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

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 29 March 1995
      ISBN-13 9780801850110
      978-0801850110
      ISBN-10 0801850118

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revised 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 Review
      Praise 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 Contents

      Foreword
      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

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