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Making the unipolar moment : U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the post-Cold War order / / Hal Brands



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Autore: Brands Hal <1983-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making the unipolar moment : U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the post-Cold War order / / Hal Brands Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, [New York] ; ; London, England : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (482 pages)
Disciplina: 327.73009/04
Soggetto topico: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 1977-1981
United States Foreign relations 1981-1989
United States Foreign relations 1989-1993
Soggetto non controllato: political strategy, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, globalization, international terrorism, Jimmy Carter, George Shultz
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Roots of Resurgence -- 2. The Reagan Offensive and the Transformation of the Cold War -- 3. American Statecraft and the Democratic Revolution -- 4. Toward the Neoliberal Order -- 5. Structure versus Strategy in the Greater Middle East -- 6. The Dawn of the Unipolar Moment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post-World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States was now enjoying its "unipolar moment"-an era in which Washington faced no near-term rivals for global power and influence, and one in which the defining feature of international politics was American dominance. How did this remarkable turnaround occur, and what role did U.S. foreign policy play in causing it? In this important book, Hal Brands uses recently declassified archival materials to tell the story of American resurgence.Brands weaves together the key threads of global change and U.S. policy from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, examining the Cold War struggle with Moscow, the rise of a more integrated and globalized world economy, the rapid advance of human rights and democracy, and the emergence of new global challenges like Islamic extremism and international terrorism. Brands reveals how deep structural changes in the international system interacted with strategies pursued by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush to usher in an era of reinvigorated and in many ways unprecedented American primacy. Making the Unipolar Moment provides an indispensable account of how the post-Cold War order that we still inhabit came to be.
Titolo autorizzato: Making the unipolar moment  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-4706-1
1-5017-0343-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827162103321
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