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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Structure, Strategy, and American Resurgence
1. Roots of Resurgence
The 1970s and the Crisis of American Power
The Paradoxical Cold War
Human Rights and the Democratic Revolution
Globalization and Economic Renewal
Conclusion
2. The Reagan Offensive and the Transformation of the Cold War
Reagan, American Prospects, and the Cold War
Taking the Offensive
Success, Failure, and Adaptation
Reagan and Gorbachev
Blowback
Conclusion
3. American Statecraft and the Democratic Revolution
Reagan’s Democratic Evolution
Anticommunism and Democracy in Central America
A Historic Opening in Latin America
From Authoritarian to Democratic Stability in East Asia
Constructive Engagement and South Africa
Conclusion
4. Toward the Neoliberal Order
Reaganomics at Home and Abroad
Trade, Finance, and Policy Coordination in the Western World
Debt, Leverage, and Neoliberal Ascendancy in the Third World
The Market and the Middle Kingdom
Conclusion
5. Structure versus Strategy in the Greater Middle East
The Iranian Revolution and the Three Challenges
Persian Gulf Security and the Iran-Iraq War
The Travails of Counterterrorism
Radical Islam and the Afghan Jihad
Iran-Contra and After
Conclusion
6. The Dawn of the Unipolar Moment
The Bush Administration on the Eve of Unipolarity
German Reunification and the Shaping of Post–Cold War Europe
The Persian Gulf War and the Unveiling of Unipolarity
Primacy and Post–Cold War Strategy
Conclusion
Conclusion: Understanding the Arc of American Power
Key Themes and Conclusions
American Power and Policy in the Post–Cold War Era
Notes
Index
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