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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Fractures and Faultlines in the Global Political Economy | |
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| The Making of the 'West' and the Contender State Challenge | |
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| Systemic and Transnational Rivalries | |
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| Industrial Competition and Capitalist Discipline | |
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| Integration and Rivalry in Europe and the Middle East | |
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| Cold War Antecedents of European Integration | |
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| Anglo-American Redistribution and State Formation in the Middle East | |
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| The Resurrection of the Strong State in France | |
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| America's Crusade in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic Rift | |
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| The Illusion of an Atlantic Europe | |
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| Asian Killing Fields: Indo-China and Indonesia | |
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| Gaullist France and the Remaking of the Post-War Atlantic Order | |
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| The Spectre of Social and Economic Democracy | |
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| May 1968 and the New Freedom | |
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| The Middle East and OPEC as New Contenders | |
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| The Drive for a New International Economic Order | |
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| Transnational Rivalries and the Neoliberal Turn | |
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| Contending Forces in the Strategy of Tension | |
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| Disciplining the Heartland in the Interregnum | |
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| Neoliberal Civil Society against the State | |
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| From Pinochet to the Reagan Doctrine | |
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| Latin America's Contender State Experience and Atlantic Rivalry | |
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| Oligarchic Privatisation in the Debt Trap | |
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| Attacking the Weak Links of the 'Third World': Africa and Central America | |
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| The Rapallo Syndrome and the Demise of the Soviet Union | |
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| The USSR as a Contender State | |
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| Atlantic Rivalries in the New Cold War | |
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| Rival Responses to Gorbachev's New Look | |
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| America over Europe in the Balkans Crisis | |
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| Social Forces in the Clinton Globalisation Offensive | |
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| Rival Responses to the Crisis in Yugoslavia | |
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| Americanisation of the European Union against the United States? | |
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| The Rise of China as the New Contender | |
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| China's Reintegration into the Capitalist World Economy | |
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| The Asian Crisis and the Disruption of the Japan-centred Order | |
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| The Asia-Pacific Geopolitical Triangle-The US, Japan and China | |
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| Energy Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era | |
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| From 'Iran-Contra' to the First Gulf War | |
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| Struggles over Caspian Energy Resources and the 'New Silk Road' | |
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| Afghanistan, 11 September, and the Invasion of Iraq | |
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| From Human Rights to the Global State of Emergency | |
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| The Aesthetics of Imperialist Geopolitics | |
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| Rival Concepts of Human Rights | |
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| From Humanitarian 'Just Wars' to the Global War on Terror | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |