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6. Hyperpower and its discontents
Andrew Preston
in American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
With the Cold War over, the United States found itself in a position of supremacy unmatched since the days of the Roman Empire. American power was supposed to stimulate the spread of ...
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American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Preston
For better or worse, be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally, Americans have had a profound impact on the wider world beyond them. American Foreign ...
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3. Global America
Andrew Preston
in American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had become the world’s preeminent economic power. Yet for such a large and wealthy country, by 1890 the United States was in a ...
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5. Superpower
Andrew Preston
in American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
The modern era was the American century, but it was also very much the communist century. Between them, the United States and the Soviet Union held the fate of the world in their hands. If ...
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