LEADER 04158nam 2200433 450 001 9910743214803321 005 20230629221127.0 010 $a981-16-9503-2 010 $a981-16-9502-4 010 $a981-16-9503-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6934165 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6934165 035 $a(CKB)21412765900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921412765900041 100 $a20221106d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerica's two Cold wars $efrom hegemony to decline? /$fAlfredo Toro Hardy 210 1$aSingapore :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Hardy, Alfredo Toro America's Two Cold Wars Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2022 9789811695025 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 The Brief History of the End of History -- What Had Happened? -- The Reform that Triggered the Implosion -- The Landmark year of 1989 -- Divisions Within the Communist Party -- The Coup and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union -- The End of History -- Global Hegemony -- References -- 3 From Hiding Strengths to Assertive Showcasing -- A Fruitful and Resilient Agreement -- Reform and Opening Up -- Succession and Implications -- Inflection Point -- A New Boldness -- Paradoxically -- Xi Jinping -- Hard-Liner -- America's Reasons -- Collision Course -- The New Cold War -- References -- 4 From Ideology to Efficiency -- America's Mythology -- A Crusading Foreign Policy -- Ideological Confrontation -- A New Ideological Contest? -- The Populist Irruption -- Trump's Arrival -- Eroding Democracy -- The New Republicans -- The Road to Nowhere -- Efficiency as the Catchword -- Can America Compete? -- Unbridled Problems -- Covid and the Reagan's Revolution in Reverse -- References -- 5 From Hegemony to the Squandering of Alliances -- America's Led International Architecture -- Soviet Bloc and Non-Alignment -- America's Alliance System -- The Erosion of America's Hegemony -- Neoconservatives -- Obama's Failed Attempt -- Trump's "Dog Eat Dog" Foreign Policy -- Money, Money, Money -- More Than What America's Allies Can Handle -- Beijing-Moscow: Strategic Partnership or Axis? -- Why Did Russia Approach China? -- Ukraine and Crimea -- China's Revisionist Multilateral Building -- Cooperative Multilateralism -- Belt and Road -- Other Initiatives -- Reputational Problems -- A Big Magnet -- References -- 6 From Strategic Consistency to Zigzagging -- Rules of the Game -- Conceptual Bases -- The Marshall Plan -- Containment. 327 $aJohnson, Vietnam, and the Foreign Policy Crisis -- America's Divides -- A Fractured Society -- Between Dispersion and Bashing -- A Focused China -- Xi's Autocracy -- References -- 7 From Economic High Ground to Economic Lowland -- A Vulnerable and Hyper Militarized Society -- Lagging Technology and Escalating Compromises -- Moscow's Nightmare -- A Different Game Altogether -- Middle Classes and Innovation -- Outspending, Outsmarting -- America's Complacency -- Concentrating Versus Diffusing -- References -- 8 From Reasonable Containment to Unattainable Containment -- Containment -- Moving to the Third World -- Anomalies -- Kennedy and the Vietnam Floodgates -- Spectacular Triumph -- Replicating Containment -- Distorting but Not Abandoning -- Following Suit -- Gone Are the Days -- The Lack of Geopolitical Feasibility -- Taiwan -- References -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index. 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zChina 676 $a327.73047 700 $aToro Hardy$b Alfredo$f1950-$01125235 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743214803321 996 $aAmerica's two Cold wars$93559527 997 $aUNINA