Rethinking the 1990s : liberal world order-building in the aftermath of the Cold War /

'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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ikenberry, G. John (Editor), Trubowitz, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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