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The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect

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Roberto Rabel

ISBN: 0-275-97672-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97672-9

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216 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/30/2002

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Description: Few would dispute that the United States had been the world's most influential nation since Henry Luce first popularized the notion of an American Century in 1941. The significance of the influence, however, remains a subject of hot debate. This collection brings together international scholars who offer differing views on American international dominance in the past century and the prospects for its continuation into this one. These range from positive assessments of the role of the United States in forging a global community and in operating as a relatively benign global hegemon to a scathing critique of Washington policy makers for failing to reverse the ethically corrosive impact of the Cold War on American diplomatic practice.

American global influence has not been synonymous with omnipotence. The United States is not impervious to external influences and has itself been transformed by the forces of globalization—a phenomenon viewed by some as synonymous with Americanization. These essays highlight the notion that the phrase American Century implies the diffusion internationally of liberal capitalist principles. This book suggests that the role of the United States in diffusing those principles is at the heart of the debate about the significance of American global influence, whether in retrospect or in prospect. Includes the views of Asian, Antipodean, and American Scholars.

Table of Contents:

The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect by Roberto Rabel
The United States and the Making of a Global Community by Akira Iriye
How the United States Sold Its Soul to Win the Cold War (And as a Result Cannot Develop a Coherent Post-Cold War Foreign Policy) by Joan Hoff
The Global Environment in the American Century by John R. McNeill
The United States and International Security in the 21st Century by Robert J. Lieber
Challenges for United States Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Engagement and Globalization across the Pacific by Gilbert Rozman
Foreign Policy Legacies of the Clinton Administration for American Administrations in the 21st Century by James M. McCormick
The United States and Japan: Beyond Bilateralism? by Akiko Fukushima
The United States and the United Nations by Terence O'Brien
Australia and Americanization: The Case of the Vietnam Experience by Peter Edwards
Small Country, Big Country by Denis McLean
American Economic Leadership: A New Zealand Perspective by Stephen Hoadley
New Zealand in the American Century by Erik Olssen
Index

About the Author: ROBERTO RABEL is Academic Director, International Development, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of Between East and West: Trieste, the United States and the Cold War, 1941-1954 (1988).

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