Superpower Transformed : The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 19...

by Daniel J. Sargent

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Superpower Transformed : The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, Paperback by Sargent, Daniel J., ISBN 0190672161, ISBN-13 9780190672164, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era. Their choices proved to be of enormous consequence for the development of American foreign policy in the final decades of the twentieth century and beyond. In A Superpower Transformed , Daniel J. Sargent chronicles how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era. Drawing on many newly-released archival documents and interviews with key figures, including President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Sargent explores the collision of geopolitics and globalization that defined the decade. From the Nixon administration's efforts to stabilize a faltering Pax Americana; to Henry Kissinger's attempts to devise new strategies to manage or mitigate the consequences of economic globalization after the oil crisis of 1973-74; to the Carter administration's embrace of human rights promotion as a central task for foreign policy, Sargent explores the challenges that afflicted US poli

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780190672164
• Condition: Good

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