A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s

Geopolitics and globalization collided in the 1970s, and their collision produced difficult challenges for the makers of American foreign policy. A Superpower Transformed explains how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era, and it explores the legacies of their efforts to accommodate American power to new forces stirring in world affairs.

Contents: Introduction. 1. Pax Americana. Part I: Reaching backward. 2. In pursuit of primacy. 3. Geopolitics and humanitarianism. 4. The dollar in decline. 5. Oil shocked. Part II: Stumbling forward. 6. Managing interdependence. 7. Human rights and détente. 8. World order politics. 9. The revenge of geopolitics. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.