Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World
James E Cronin
Abstract
World War II created and the Cold War sustained a ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. This book explores the dramatic reconfiguring of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets, a movement that was eagerly embraced and encouraged by the U.S./U.K. partnership. This book's revisionist argument questions long-perceived views of post-World War II America and its position in the world, e ... More
World War II created and the Cold War sustained a ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. This book explores the dramatic reconfiguring of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets, a movement that was eagerly embraced and encouraged by the U.S./U.K. partnership. This book's revisionist argument questions long-perceived views of post-World War II America and its position in the world, especially after Vietnam. The book details the challenges the economic transition of the 1970s and 1980s engendered as the United States and Great Britain together actively pursued their shared ideal of an international assemblage of market-based democratic states. The book also addresses the crises that would sorely test the system in subsequent decades, from human rights violations and genocide in the Balkans and Africa to 9/11 and militant Islamism in the Middle East to the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008.
Keywords:
foreign policy,
World War II,
Cold War,
new world order,
United States,
Great Britain,
genocide,
9/11,
Great Recession,
Islamism
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300151480 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2015 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300151480.001.0001 |