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Global Rules
James E. Cronin
其他書名
America, Britain and a Disordered World
出版Yale University Press, 2014-10-28
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / General
ISBN03001514899780300151480
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h_t-BAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a “special relationship” between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a new history of recent global politics, author James Cronin explores the dramatic reconfiguring of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets, a movement that was eagerly embraced and encouraged by the U.S./U.K. partnership.
 
Cronin’s bold revisionist argument questions long-perceived views of post–World War II America and its position in the world, especially after Vietnam. The author details the challenges the economic transition of the 1970s and 1980s engendered as the United States and Great Britain together actively pursued their shared ideal of an international assemblage of market-based democratic states. Cronin also addresses the crises that would sorely test the system in subsequent decades, from human rights violations and genocide in the Balkans and Africa to 9/11 and militant Islamism in the Middle East to the “Great Recession” of 2008.