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Jonathan Holslag. World Politics since 1989
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
List of Map
List of Table
Pages
WORLD POLITICS SINCE 1989
Dedication
THE PENDULUM
A missed opportunity
Harmony contested
Gray zone
Outline
Notes
CHAPTER 1 PROGRESS
The weakening of the West
The limits of globalization
China vs Global South
Security
Environment
Perspective
Notes
CHAPTER 2 A DOUBTFUL VICTORY
The Cold War
Opportunity to lead
Economic fragility
Decadence
Challenges on the horizon?
Future
Notes
CHAPTER 3 THE NEW ORDER SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE
The new Mongols
China’s Goddess of Democracy
Lotus in a mud pond
The journey of the Middle East
The plagues of Africa
Maquilas
Subic Bay
Structural violence
Notes
CHAPTER 4 MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
The detaching of America Inc
American hollow
Eurostar
Carry on
Notes
CHAPTER 5 RELUCTANCE TO LEAD
Blue area
Moral hazard
Cruise missiles
Contradictions
Notes
CHAPTER 6 MAKING RIVALS RICH
“I hate our China policy!”
In China’s shadow
Boris and George
Bling bling conservatism
Kalashnikov lifestyle
Failing to lead
Notes
CHAPTER 7 DISREGARD AND DECADENCE
Disneyland
Subprime (also known as “not good”)
The audacity of hope
Europe’s elastic run
Eurozone
I am Jesus
Legitimacy
Notes
CHAPTER 8 A FOREIGN POLICY OF RECKLESSNESS
Hubris
Chocolate makers
Checkbook
World trade
Cookie cutter
Notes
CHAPTER 9 GLOBALIZATION AND THE RETURN OF POWER POLITICS
China
Velvet glove imperialism
Kaliningrad
African renaissance aborted
Medellin
Valley of the Wolves
Made in the West
Notes
CHAPTER 10 WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?
American atrophy
Amazon
Tribalism
European firewall
Morals and markets
Lesbos
Middle class
Notes
CHAPTER 11 ABDICATION
Paper tiger
Pipeline addicts
Twenty tons of tear gas
Fig leaf operations
Bluffing around the battlefield
Multilateralism
Struggle
Notes
CHAPTER 12 FRAGMENTED AND TURBULENT
Belt and Road
The hardening of influence
The crowded waiting room of globalization
Neocolonialism
Hangover
Hard hedging
Fragmented and turbulent
Notes
WATERSHED
Gathering forces
2021
Charles V
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FURTHER READING
INDEX
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
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“Important and timely.”
James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO
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The book consists of 12 chapters. A very short first chapter documents the move of the pendulum with data. It became fashionable for optimistic intellectuals to display charts that had only one destination: up. Optimism is a moral duty, it was said. There was indeed reason to be optimistic. The chapter shows growth in production and trade, a decrease also of extreme poverty. Yet, it recommends prudence and seeing these positive trends next to more worrying developments.
How was the transition from the Cold War to a new age perceived? What was the mood in the world at this dramatic moment of change around 1990? These are the central questions in chapters 2 and 3. The second chapter explains that the fall of the Soviet Union was not a victory of the West. Yes, the West became uncontested in terms of power. And, yes, one famous essay proclaimed the end of history. Yet, that same essay also warned that the end of history would be an unhappy time and make many in the West long for identity. The end of the Cold War triggered a moment of introspection.
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