The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• 1 - Introduction 1
• 2 - The United States and the Making of a Global Community 13
• 3 - How the United States Sold Its Soul to Win the Cold War (And as a Result Cannot Develop a Coherent Post-Cold War Foreign Policy) 23
• 4 - The Global Environment in the American Century 41
• 5 - The United States and International Security in the Twenty-First Century 57
• 6 - Challenges for United States Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Engagement and Globalization Across the Pacific 69
• 7 - Foreign Policy Legacies of the Clinton Administration for American Administrations in the Twenty-First Century 85
• 8 - The United States and Japan: Beyond Bilateralism? 109
• 9 - The United States and the United Nations 123
• Notes 133
• 10 - Australia and Americanization: the Case of the Vietnam Experience 135
• 11 - Small Country, Big Country 147
• 12 - American Economic Leadership: a New Zealand Perspective 157

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• 1 - Introduction 1
• 2 - The United States and the Making of a Global Community 13
• 3 - How the United States Sold Its Soul to Win the Cold War (And as a Result Cannot Develop a Coherent Post-Cold War Foreign Policy) 23
• 4 - The Global Environment in the American Century 41
• 5 - The United States and International Security in the Twenty-First Century 57
• 6 - Challenges for United States Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Engagement and Globalization Across the Pacific 69
• 7 - Foreign Policy Legacies of the Clinton Administration for American Administrations in the Twenty-First Century 85
• 8 - The United States and Japan: Beyond Bilateralism? 109
• 9 - The United States and the United Nations 123
• Notes 133
• 10 - Australia and Americanization: the Case of the Vietnam Experience 135
• 11 - Small Country, Big Country 147
• 12 - American Economic Leadership: a New Zealand Perspective 157
• 13 - New Zealand in the American Century 175
• Afterword 193
• Index 197
• About the Editor and Contributors 205