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The sources of social power. Vol. 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011 /
Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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- Cover; The sources of social power; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Globalizations; 2 The postwar global order; The end of colonialism; Postcolonial postscript; American Empire in the cold war; The economic pillar: The Bretton Woods System; The imperial and ideological pillar: The cold war; MAD and the decline of war; 3 America in war and cold war, 1945-1970: Class conflicts; The impact of World War II; Wartime labor relations: Corporatism and union growth; Postwar planning: Commercial Keynesianism, military-industrial complex; The Labor Movement: Stagnation and decline; Anticommunist ideology
- The postwar welfare stateRacial conflict in the cities; The last lib-lab offensive; Conclusion: Death by a thousand cuts; 4 U.S. civil rights and identity struggles; Social movements theory; The faltering of the Jim Crow system; White and black reactions in the south: Citizens Councils, the civil rights movement; Battle is joined; Conclusion: Explaining the civil rights movement; Racial aftermath; Identity politics; 5 American empire during the cold war, 1945-1980; Hegemony in the West; East and Southeast Asia, phase A: Imperial wars; East and Southeast Asia, phase B: Toward hegemony
- Gunboats in the American hemisphereLatin American conclusion; Frustrating proxies in the Middle East; Conclusion; 6 Neoliberalism, rise and faltering, 1970-2000; Introduction: Neoliberalism; The triumph and travails of Neo-Keynesianism; The rise of financialization; The crisis of Neo-Keynesianism; The alliance with conservatism: Thatcher and Reagan; Comparative analysis of welfare regimes and inequality; Efficiency and equality; The South: I. Structural adjustment programs and after; The South: II. Phony free trade; 7 The fall of the Soviet alternative; Faltering thaw 1945-1985
- The reform period, 1987-1991The end of the Soviet Empire; Explaining the fall: Was it a revolution?; Political transitions: To democracy and dictatorship; Economic transitions: Capitalism and neoliberalism; The Russian transition: Political capitalism, perverted democracy; Russia crawls out of the Abyss
- the 2000s; 8 The Maoist alternative reformed; Consolidation and crises: Maoism, 1950-1976; Economic reform: The Deng era, 1979-1992; The capitalist party-state: 1992 onward; Inequality and resistance; Comparing the Chinese and Russian reform paths; 9 A theory of revolution
- Third wave precursor? The Iranian Revolution of 1979Soviet fall: Revolution from above?; Conclusion; 10 American empire at the turn of the twenty-first century; The new economic imperialism, 1970-1995: Dollar seigniorage; Informal Empire through military intervention, 1990-2011; Creeping imperial expansion in the 1990s; The rise of the Neo-Cons in the court of Bush the Younger; The goals of the invasions; How did our oil get under their sand?; The invasion and occupation of Iraq; Costs and benefits of the invasion; Afghan quagmire; Blowback; Two imperialisms or one?; Conclusion