The Cold War and the New Imperialism is an account of global
history since 1945, which brings massive changes in global
politics, economics, and society together in a single narrative,
illuminating and clarifying the dilemmas of the present. Written
for the general reader, it draws together scholarly research from a
wide range of sources without losing sight of the larger pattern of
events.
In the sixty-year period since the end of World War II, the
world has indeed been remade. The war itself mobilized the
political and social aspirations of hundreds of millions of people.
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union for
global dominance drew every country into its field of force.
Struggles for national liberation in the Third World brought an end
to colonial empires. Revolutions in China, Cuba, Vietnam and
elsewhere shook the global order, as did failed uprisings in Paris
and Prague. Since the end of the Cold War the forces of the
capitalist market have overwhelmed social institutions that have
given meaning to human existence for centuries.
But the end of the Cold War has created as many problems for the
worldas remaining superpower, the United States, as it has solved.
With its political, economic, and financial hegemony eroding, the
United States has responded with military adventures abroad and
increasing inequality and authoritarianism at home. The Cold War
and the New Imperialism draws all these threads together and shows
vividly that the end of history is not in sight.
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