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Book SynopsisOverview of relations between the world's major powers, by a leading professor of international relations
Trade Review'I can't think of a more effective way to bring economic history back into political discussions' -- European Tribune
'Kees Van Der Pijl has done a remarkable job of viewing the global rivalries in a fresh perspective of 'contender states'' -- Free Press Journal
'This is a delightfully objective, fair and fearless analysis of a strife-tired world ... A strategist's collector's item' -- Tribune
'Adds more punch to your repository of arguments against the ongoing mindless violence' -- The Financial Express
'A remarkable panorama of both the substance and meaning of recent world history, one of those rare books that will change the way thoughtful people think. Global Rivalries is rich in insight, making coherence of disparate events, and it offers again and again fresh insights into the way our war-torn, beleaguered world has operated' -- Gabriel Kolko
'Just when you thought International Relations as a field was brain-dead, along comes Kees van der Pijl's new book. His inspired account brings together history, economics and politics to create a far more nuanced view of rivalry and cooperation among the great powers over time' -- Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
'A magisterial work that explains and demystifies the rivalries and conflicts which have characterised the foreign relations of the "great powers" in the modern era' -- Stephen Gill, York University, Toronto
Table of Contents1. Fractures and Faultlines in the Global Political Economy
2. Integrating Atlantic Europe
3. America’s Crusade in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic Rift
4. The Spectre of Social and Economic Democracy
5. Transnational Rivalries and the Neoliberal Turn
6. From Pinochet to the Reagan Doctrine
7. The Rapallo Syndrome and the Demise of the Soviet Union
8. America over Europe in the Balkans Crisis
9. The Rise of China as the New Contender
10. Energy Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era
11. From Human Rights to the Global State of Emergency
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