Title:
Zero-sum future : American power in an age of anxiety / Gideon Rachman.
Author:
Rachman, Gideon.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Call Number:
D860 .R33 2011
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
ISBN:
9781439176610
Physical Description:
viii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: Davos, 2009 -- pt. 1. Age of transformation, 1978-1991. China, 1978 : Deng's counter-revolution ; Britain, 1979 : Thatcherism ; The United States, 1980 : the Reagan revolution ; The European Union, 1986 : embracing the market ; The Soviet Union, 1985-91 : glasnost, perestroika, and collapse ; Europe, 1989 : the year of revolutions ; Latin America, 1982-91 : the triumph of democracy and markets ; India, 1991 : the second Asian giant awakes -- The Gulf War, 1991 : the unipolar moment -- pt. 2. Age of optimism : 1991-2008. Democracy : Francis Fukuyama and the end of history -- Prosperity : Alan Greenspan and the end of economic history ; Progress : Bill Gates and the triumph of technology ; Peace : Bill Clinton and the win-win world ; The optimistic East : Kishore Mahbubani and the Asian century -- Europe : Gunter Verheugen and the European dream ; The anti-globalisers : from the Asian crisis to 9/11 ; Power : Charles Krauthammer and the neo-conservatives -- pt. 3. Age of anxiety. The American crisis ; A world of troubles ; World government : the world as Europe ; Axis of authoritarianism : the world as Russia and China ; Fractured world : the world as Pakistan ; Zero-sum world ; Saving the world.
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