America's two Cold wars : from hegemony to decline? / / Alfredo Toro Hardy

• Autore: Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Disciplina: 327.73047
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; United States Foreign relations China
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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. ; Johnson, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: America's two Cold wars
• ISBN: 981-16-9503-2; 981-16-9502-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910743214803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II