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Making the Unipolar Moment - U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (Hardcover)
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Making the Unipolar Moment - U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (Hardcover)
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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.
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