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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Historical Perspectives

1. The Rise and Fall of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective

Introduction

Four theories in search of the Cold War

Building bridges

Bringing in process

End games: path dependency

The Cold War in comparative perspective

Test-Evaluate-Verify

And back to the empirical

2. History Ends, World Collide

Introduction

An interregnum?

Liberalism triumphs

Liberal empire, democratic peace?

The end of history, or the end of a history?

Globalization and the clash of civilizations

Conclusion

3. Globalization and National Governance: Antinomies or Interdependence?

Why the fuss about globalization?

Does political interdependence curtail national policy autonomy?

Does economic globalization constrain national governance?

A new kind of state?

The critical role of state capacity in the Asian crisis: Korea and Taiwan

Conclusion

4. Beyond Westphalia?: Capitalism after the 'Fall'

Capitalism and the meaning of Westphalia

Is the dominant process changing?

Is the dominant unit changing?

Is the nature of international society changing?

Two worlds: how will they relate?

Contending Visions

5. The Potentials of Enlightenment

Introduction: the challenges of the 1990s

Reassessing the Enlightenment

Modernity and its contradictions

A century of crisis

A radical modernity: Communism

The limits of 'liberal democracy'

The failures of modernity: the international dimension

New critiques of modernity

The end of the Cold War: agency and progress

Conclusion

6. Marxism after Communism

Crawling from the wreckage

Transcending historicism

Transcending realism

The future of Marxism

7. Liberalism Since the Cold War: An Enemy to Itself?

The new interventionism

The international economy

The persistence of politics

The paradox of liberal power

8. Clausewitz Rules, OK? The Future is the Past-with GPS

The confessions of a neoclassical realist

The well of error never runs dry

Old fallacies rarely die: myths, probable myths, and half-truths

I fight, therefore I am human

On the lethality of optimism

Geopolitical Landscapes

9. Mission Impossible? The IMF and the Failure of the Market Transition in Russia

Introduction

In the beginning: 1991 and all that

The IMF takes the lead

The Cure

Democracy from above or Yeltsin rules-OK?

Capitalism in command?

The 1998 August crisis

After the crisis, or what went wrong?

Conclusion

10. Europe after the Cold War: Interstate Order or post-Sovereign Regional System?

Rethinking Europe

The transformation of Western Europe

But where does Europe end?

What structures for European order are now emerging?

11. Where is the Third World Now?

Third World: what, where, whom?

Global architecture

Solutions

Conclusion

12. Whatever Happened to the Pacific Century?

The Pacific Century idea

The East Asian challenge in retrospect

Regionalism in Asia-Pacific

Asian drama revisited?

Pacific Century: myth or reality?

13. Still the American Century

I shop, therefore I am

The pleasures of Austrian economics

The sign of a good brand

Massive fog grips Europe; continent isolated

Hegemony means never having to say you're sorry

A liberal hegemony?

The making and remaking of American hegemony

The techno-world and globalization

The 'abundant life' and American ascendancy today

Conclusion: still the American Century

Index