Another American Century?

Did September 11th change everything? Is George W. Bush responsible for America's international isolation? Why did the United States declare "war on terror", and what does this war mean for the future of the world? This study of the United States since the end of the Cold War reveals the economic, diplomatic and military dimensions of American foreign policy, and investigates what Americans say and believe about their relationship with the rest of the world. A major new chapter discusses September 11th, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the motives and ideas behind America's "war on terror".

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'A powerful analysis [that] raises fresh, fundamental questions about an entire range of US foreign policies that have deep roots in the American economic and cultural experience.' - Walter LaFeber, Cornell University, author of Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism. 'Nicholas Guyatt has done us a great service. With this book he has given us a succinct, bold and penetrating critique of the triumphalist ideology which insists on American domination of this and the next century. Another American Century? is both sweeping in its argument and rich in the evidence it produces to show the dangers to us all in the idea that our country has the right to impose its will on the rest of the world.' - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States 'A cogent and incisive history of the present. Guyatt situates major debates about American foreign relations (the consequences of globalization, Washington and the United Nations, the role of the Pentagon after the Cold War, humanitarian interventions) in a concise but sweeping interpretive history going back to the Depression and World War II. In so doing he skewers a number of shallow and insubstantial foreign affairs pundits who may get a lot of media attention, but get few things right about the problems and perils of American foreign policy in a new century.' - Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago and author of The American Ascendancy

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Nicholas Guyatt is a historian. Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he moved to the United States where he did his doctorate at Princeton University. He is the author of The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Zed, 1998) and Another American Century? (first edition, 2000).

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Introduction 1. The US and the Global Economy The Global Economy since 1945 'Trade, not aid': US versions of 'development' Washington's consensus 2. The US and the International Community Defining the 'international community' 'Saving every child': The US and international peacekeeping The US and the UN: The end of multilateralism 3. The US and Military Power Strategy Technology Conflict 4. American Missions Theories Perspectives 5. A New American Century? George W. Bush and 9/11 Understanding the War on Terror Debate and the Limits of Dissent Looking Ahead Index

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