America's Half-Century

United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After

By: Thomas J. McCormick

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Paperback | 16 April 1995 | Edition Number 2

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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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Praise for the first edition: "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."--'Nation.' "Original, bold, provocative, important."--Robert J. McMahon, 'Reviews in American History'

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Analytic Framework: The World-System, Hegemony, and Domestic Power	p. 1
Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1895-1945	p. 17
Cold War on Many Fronts, 1945-1946	p. 43
The Crisis of the New Order, 1947-1950	p. 72
Militarization and Third World Integration, 1950-1956	p. 99
Hegemony at High Tide, 1957-1967	p. 125
Dissent, Detente, and Decline, 1968-1976	p. 155
The Carter Cold War, 1977-1980	p. 191
The Reagan Cold War and Detente Revisited, 1981-1988	p. 216
The End of the Cold War and the Future of Hegemony	p. 237
Bibliographical Essay	p. 259
Index	p. 277
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