The new Middle Ages
Subtitle: the world system in the 21st century
By: Tanaka Akihiko ; translated by Jean Connell Hoff.
Contributors: LTCB International Library Trust.; Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan)
Edition: 1st English ed.
Series: LTCB international library selection -- no. 12
Publisher: International House of Japan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: World politics -- 1989-; International relations; International economic relations
Work titles: Atarashii "chūsei".
Notes: At head of title: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan.

Translation of: Atarashii "chūsei".

Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: What was the Cold War? -- -- The; title: Cold War as a bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR -- -- The; title: Cold War as a clash of ideologies -- -- The; title: Post-Cold War world -- -- The; title: final stages of the Cold War -- -- The; title: significance of the end of the Cold War -- -- The; title: American hegemony --; title: Hegemon and superpower -- -- The; title: functions of hegemony -- -- The; title: basis for hegemony --; title: What did the American hegemony achieve? --; title: After hegemony -- -- The; title: decline of the American hegemony -- -- The; title: impact of hegemonic decline -- -- The; title: theory of hegemonic decline -- -- An; title: increasingly interdependent world --; title: Indicators of interdependence --; title: Interstate interdependence -- -- The; title: institutionalization of interdependence --; title: Theories of interdependence --; title: Regulating interdependence -- -- A; title: "new medievalism"? -- -- The; title: distinctive features of the European Middle Ages -- -- The; title: modern world system -- -- The; title: three spheres --; title: What are the three spheres? --; title: Interaction among the three spheres --; title: Asia and the Pacific --; title: Three sets of problems --; title: What should Japan do? --; title: Japan's role.