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The great experiment : the story of ancient empires, modern states, and the quest for a global nation / Strobe Talbott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbott, Strobe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International organization--History.
- International organization.
- History.
- State, The--History.
- State, The.
- Empire--History.
- Empire.
- Geopolitics--History.
- Geopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Gathering of Tribes 1
- 1 The Imperial Millennia
- 1 Caravans at Rest 15
- 2 A Light Unto the Nations 26
- 3 The Ecumenical State 41
- 4 The Poet and "the Prince" 66
- 5 Perpetual War and "Perpetual Peace" 86
- 6 Blood and Leather 104
- 2 The American Centuries
- 7 Monsters to Destroy 125
- 8 Empty Chairs 148
- 9 The Master Builder 174
- 10 A Trusteeship of the Powerful 203
- 11 An End and A Beginning 237
- 13 The Unipolar Decades
- 12 The New World Order 255
- 13 Seizing the Day 280
- 14 Hard Power 299
- 15 A Theory of the Case 324
- 16 Going It Alone 347
- 17 A Consequential Aberration 370
- Conclusion: the Crucial Years 393.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-454) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780743294089
- 0743294084
- OCLC:
- 153578392
- Online:
- Publisher description
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