Global Rules : America, Britain and a Disordered World / James E. Cronin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cronin, James E., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

World politics--1989-.

Cold War.

Security, International.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-.

Great Britain.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

CHAPTER 1: Remaking the World, Again

CHAPTER 2: Vietnam to Helsinki: A Seventies Trip

CHAPTER 3: Détente, Human Rights and Economic Crisis

CHAPTER 4: Thatcher, Reagan and the Market

CHAPTER 5: Market Rules and the International Economy

CHAPTER 6: Cold War Ironies: Reagan and Thatcher at Large

CHAPTER 7: Ending the Cold War and Recreating Europe

CHAPTER 8: The Shaping of the Post-Cold War World

CHAPTER 9: The Shaping of the Post-Cold War World

Epilogue: Global Rules in Question

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300210217

0300210213

OCLC:

891397007