Acknowledgments
Intro
Ch 1 Pax Americana
Part I Reaching Backward
Ch 2 In Pursuit of Primacy
Ch 3 Geopolitics and Humanitarianism
Ch 4 The Dollar in Decline
Ch 5 Oil Shocked
Part II Stumbling Forward
Ch 6 Managing Interdependence
Ch 7 Human Rights and Detente
Ch 8 World Olrder Politics
Ch 9 The Revenge of Geopolitics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Daniel J. Sargent is Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor of The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s.
"This is an exceptionally thorough and eloquent history, of
relevance not merely
to historians of U.S. foreign relations but to scholars of
international history, human
rights, and globalization. The book maps the foundational moment
when the contours
of the 21st century came into being at a staccato, haphazard
cadence. The sheer
difficulty of assessing this reordering of the world, which was
largely bereft of design and dominated by contingency and accident,
is daunting. Sargent's contribution will be a lodestar for future
treatments of the period The book is remarkably bold in ambition
and still more remarkable for its successful execution."--Journal
of Cold War Studies
"Deeply researched and well-written, Sargent's analysis contributes
to the argument that the seventies was a crucial era in which the
chaotic and challenging contemporary world emerged, and in which
the 'sole superpower' is powerful, yet unable to succeed
consistently."-- CHOICE
"Daniel Sargent's comprehensive assessment of Nixon, Ford, and
Carter foreign policies integrates geopolitical, economic, and
human rights issues with such skill that it now must be the
starting point for all future scholarship on that era. A major
accomplishment by a talented young historian."--John Lewis Gaddis,
Yale University
"Daniel Sargent's new book goes a long way toward illuminating the
course of the Cold War and the U.S. engagement with globalization.
Deeply researched and wonderfully well written, A Superpower
Transformed blends world politics and international economics to
explain the momentous changes in 1970s U.S. foreign relations. This
is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of America's place
in the world today."--Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann, author
of The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic
Inequality
"Daniel Sargent's book shows how the 'Cold War order' imploded
during the 1970s, as rapid globalization shaped a new era of
unpredictability, fragmentation, and improvised policies. With its
deep research, fresh interpretations, beautiful writing, and tight
focus on questions of how power is exercised, A Superpower
Transformed is a work of major importance."--Emily S. Rosenberg,
author of Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World,
1870-1945
"Ambitious in its design, capacious in its coverage, this eloquent
and nuanced analysis will be essential reading for anyone who wants
to understand the origins of the contemporary era."--Matthew J.
Connelly, Columbia University
"Sargent's book is also highly relevant today, as it demonstrates
the challenges of policy making in turbulent and changing
times."--The Journal of American History
"Sargent writes eloquently, comprehensively, and persuasively about
the limits of power in a pluralizing, chaotic, interdependent
world."--American Historical Review
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