Did the United States "win" the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory
euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly
acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political
and economic devolution--the real threat to global peace and prosperity.
Revised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the Cold
War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what
possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.