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This wide-ranging history of modern America demonstrates that the idea of a capitalist peace cast free trade as an engine of US foreign policy and the key to global prosperity from the 1930s to the present.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Capitalist Peace
- Chapter 1 Depression, 1930-1935
- Chapter 2 Dictators, 1936-1940
- Chapter 3 Universalism, 1941-1945
- Chapter 4 Security, 1946-1950
- Chapter 5 Containment, 1951-1954
- Chapter 6 Offensive, 1955-1958
- Chapter 7 Competition, 1959-1963
- Chapter 8 Revolt, 1964-1970
- Chapter 9 Shock, 1971-1979
- Chapter 10 Victory, 1980-1990
- Chapter 11 Globalization, 1991-2000
- Chapter 12 Crisis, 2001-2021
- Conclusion A Near-Century of Capitalist Peace
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Thomas W. Zeiler is a Professor of History and Director of the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT, Globalization and the American Century, and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II (OUP, 2010). He served as the President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and as editor of its journal, Diplomatic History.
Riassunto
This wide-ranging history of modern America demonstrates that the idea of a capitalist peace cast free trade as an engine of US foreign policy and the key to global prosperity from the 1930s to the present.
Testo aggiuntivo
Thomas Zeiler provides a learned account of an essential subject: America's use of trade liberalization as an instrument not just of domestic prosperity but also of international peace and security. Spanning from the rise of free-trade internationalism in the 1930s to the agenda's possible fall today, Zeiler reveals how profoundly Donald Trump and other nationalists have turned away from the longstanding pursuit of 'capitalist peace'—but also how the seeds of the revolt were planted long ago. This history of economic statecraft across the American Century could not be more timely.
