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Preface | |
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Introduction: The 1945 Watershed | |
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International Politics Reconfigured | |
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Wilson and Lenin as Rival Visionaries | |
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World War II and the Onset of the Cold War | |
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The Role of Nationalism | |
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A Global Economy in Transition | |
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The First Phase of Globalization Begins, 1870s-1914 | |
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Globalization Reborn, 1945 to the Present | |
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The Colonial System on the Brink | |
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Vulnerabilities of Empire | |
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The Appearance of the "Third World" | |
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Hopes and Fears Contend, 1945-1953 | |
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The Cold War: Toward Soviet-American Confrontation | |
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Origins of the Rivalry | |
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From Cooperation to Conflict | |
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U.S. Policy in Transition | |
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Stalin's Pursuit of Territory and Security | |
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Stalin and the Postwar Settlement | |
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From Europe to the Periphery | |
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Drawing the Line in Europe | |
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The Nuclear Arms Race Accelerates | |
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Opening a Front in the Third World | |
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Limited War in Korea | |
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Superpower Societies in an Unquiet Time | |
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Soviet Society under Stress | |
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The U.S. Anti-Communist Consensus | |
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Conclusion | |
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The International Economy: Out of the Ruins | |
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Anglo-American Remedies for an Ailing System | |
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Keynesian Economics and a Design for Prosperity | |
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The Bretton Woods Agreements | |
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The U.S. Rescue Operation | |
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Occupation and Recovery in Japan | |
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Recovery in Western Europe | |
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The American Economic Powerhouse | |
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Good Times Return | |
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Disney and the U.S. Economic Edge | |
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"Coca-colonization" and the Mass Consumption Model | |
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European Resistance to "Americanization" | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Third World: First Tremors in Asia | |
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The Appeal of Revolution and the Strong State | |
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The Chinese Communist Triumph | |
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Vietnam's Revolutionary Struggle | |
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New States under Conservative Elites | |
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India's Status-quo Independence | |
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The Collaborative Impulse in the Philippines | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Cold War System Under Stress, 1953-1968 | |
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The Cold War: A Tenuous Accommodation | |
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The Beginnings of Coexistence | |
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Khrushchev under Pressure | |
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Crosscurrents in American Policy | |
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Crisis Points | |
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To the Nuclear Brink in Cuba | |
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The Vietnam Quagmire | |
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The Quake of '68 | |
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The American Epicenter | |
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The Ground Shifts Abroad | |
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Conclusion | |
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Abundance and Discontent in the Developed World | |
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America at Apogee | |
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Triumphant at Home and Abroad | |
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Warning Signs of Economic Troubles | |
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Recovery in Western Europe and Japan | |
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The Old World's New Course | |
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Fiat and Europe's Corporate Aristocracy | |
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The Second Japanese Miracle | |
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Voices of Discontent | |
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The New Environmentalism | |
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The Feminist Upsurge | |
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Critics of Global Economic Inequalities | |
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Conclusion | |
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Third World Hopes at High Tide | |
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Revolutionary Trajectories in East Asia | |
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The Maoist Experiment in China | |
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Vietnam's Fight for the South | |
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The Caribbean Basin: Between Reaction and Revolution | |
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Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" | |
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Cuba and the Revolution that Survived | |
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Decolonization at High Tide in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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Ghana and Nkrumah's African Socialism | |
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Colonial Legacies in Ghana and Beyond | |
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Remaking North Africa and the Middle East | |
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Economic Nationalism in Iran | |
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A New Order for Egypt and the Region | |
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Colonial Crisis in Algeria | |
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Conclusion | |
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From Cold War to Globalization, 1968-1991 | |
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The Cold War comes to a Close | |
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The Rise and Fall of D�tente | |
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The Nixon Policy Turnaround | |
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The Breshnev Era | |
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Western Europe and D�tente | |
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The U.S. Retreat from D�tente | |
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The Gorbachev Initiatives | |
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Glasnost, Perestroika, and a New Foreign Policy | |
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The Demise of the Soviet System | |
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Explaining the Cold War Outcome | |
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The Role of Leaders | |
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Impersonal Forces | |
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Conclusion | |
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Global Markets: One System, Three Centers | |
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The United States and the North American Bloc | |
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The Erosion of U.S. Dominance | |
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The Free Market Faith | |
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The Rise of an East Asian Bloc | |
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Japan Stays on Course | |
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The "Little Dragons" in Japan's Shadow | |
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics | |
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Vietnam in China's Footsteps | |
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Revived Bloc Building in Europe | |
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Renewed Integration and the E.U. | |
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Social and Cultural Developments | |
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Post-'89 and the Opening to the East | |
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Conclusion | |
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Divergent Paths in the Third World | |
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The Changing Face of Revolution | |
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Cambodia's Genocidal Revolution | |
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Religious Challenge in Iran | |
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Revolutionary Aftershock in the Middle East | |
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Opposition to Settler Colonialism | |
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South African Apartheid under Siege | |
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Conflict over Palestine | |
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Repression and Resistance in Guatemala | |
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Dreams of Development in Disarray | |
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Stalemated Economies | |
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The Population Explosion | |
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Women and Development | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conclusion: Globalization Ascendant, The 1990s and Beyond | |
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The Perils and Possibilities of Globalization | |
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Environmental Stresses | |
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One World or Two? | |
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An Emerging International Regime | |
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Globalization as U.S. Hegemony? | |
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"The American Century" | |
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Playing the Global Policeman | |
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Resistance Abroad | |
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Index | |