Rethinking the 1990s liberal world order-building in the aftermath of the Cold War Ikenberry, G. John editor. Trubowitz, Peter editor. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations 'Rethinking the 1990s' provides a timely, thought-provoking retrospective on a decade of world-historical importance. In an era of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic nationalism, and ideological extremism, this wide-ranging analysis explores the great hopes and expectations that inspired Western policymakers in the decade after the Cold War. Providing much-needed historical perspective, it offers new insight into the strategic choices, political trade-offs, and missed opportunities that have brought the world to this unsettled moment. Written in a highly accessible style, these engaging essays by leading experts will make it attractive to students and the educated reading public as well as essential reading for scholars of world politics. Cover -- Table page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Making Sense of the 1990s: Choices, Pathways, and Missed Opportunities -- Part I: BRAVE NEW WORLD: LIBERAL CONSOLIDATION OR TRANSFORMATION? -- 2 How Recursive Is Global Governance? Revisiting the Ordering Choices of the Nineties -- 3 That Faustian Decade: The Financialization of the American Economy -- 4 When Hegemony Mostly Worked: U.S. Relations with Europe and Japan during the 1990s 5 Responsible Sovereignty and Individual Accountability: Liberal Internationalist Aspirations from the 1990s -- Part II: Taking Stock: Western Successes and Failures -- 6 Populism and the Durability of the Liberal Order in Eastern Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement Reconsidered -- 7 Who Lost Russia? The 1990s Revisited -- 8 Reconsidering Engagement with China: Authoritarian Power and International Order -- 9 The Return of/to Europe and the New Politics of Globalism -- Part III: False Dawn: Western Overreach or Underreach? 10 Ever Deeper and Wider? The Globalization of the Liberal International Order and the End of the Cold War -- 11 The Liberal Order Reconsidered: Europe, the United States, and the Missteps of the 1990s -- 12 Mistakes Were Made: Revisiting the 1990s from the EU's Immediate Neighborhood -- 13 On Breakthroughs, Deadlocks, and Rose-Gardens Lost in Between: The Failed Promise of North-South Cooperation -- Index Specialized. specialized edited by G. John Ikenberry, Peter Trubowitz. Includes bibliographical references and index. Geopolitics History 20th century Nineteen nineties World politics 1989- Géopolitique Histoire 20e siècle Années quatre-vingt-dix (Vingtième siècle) Politique mondiale 1989- International Relations POLITICAL SCIENCE Diplomacy Geopolitics History Nineteen nineties World politics History History 1900-1999 fast 1990-1999 fast D860 .R48 2025 909.8/29 9780197813133 0197813135 9780197813119 0197813119 9780197813126 0197813127 9780197813096 9780197813102 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/61378 STBDS 250916 20260319210522.8 in00005728690 eng