Global rules
Subtitle: America, Britain and a disordered world
By: James E. Cronin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780300151480
Subjects: International relations; Politischer Wandel; Politische Krise; Marktwirtschaft; International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; World politics; Internationale Politik; Cold War; Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978; Foreign relations
Description: 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 US and Great Britain together actively pursued their shared ideal of an international assemblage of market-based democratic states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 353-375) and index.
Table of contents: title: Remaking the world again; title: Vietnam to Helsinki: a seventies trip; title: Detente, human rights and economic crisis; title: Thatcher, Reagan and the market; title: Market rules and the international economy; title: Cold War ironies: Reagan and Thatcher at large; title: Ending the Cold War and recreating Europe; title: The shaping of the post-Cold War World; title: Order and disorder after the Cold War.