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America's Half-Century

United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After

Thomas J. McCormick
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Did the United States "win" the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution—the real threat to global peace and prosperity. Revised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the Cold War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.

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Incisive, eminently readable... McCormick reminds his readers of the unfashionable truths of our time: American domination of the postwar order, the weakness and conservatism of the Soviet Union, the gratuitousness of the nuclear arms race.

— The Nation

Original, bold, provocative, important.

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Analytic Framework: The World-System, Hegemony and Domestic Power
2. Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1895-1945
3. Cold War on Mary

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Analytic Framework: The World-System, Hegemony and Domestic Power
2. Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1895-1945
3. Cold War on Mary Fronts, 1945-1946
4. The Crisis of the New Order, 1947-1950
5. Militarization and Third World Integration, 1950-1956
6. Hegemony at High Tide, 1957-1967
7. Dissent, Detente, and Decline, 1968-1976
8. The Carter Cold War, 1977-1980
9. The Reagan Cold War and the Future of Hedemony
Bibliographical Essay
Index

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Thomas J. McCormick is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His Books include China Market.
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