Description
In the decade following the end of the Cold War, Western democracies stood victorious, brimming with optimism and grand designs. Today, the 1990s look less like a great triumph for liberal democracy and Western modernity than a decade in which post-Cold War excitement and anticipation obscured a slowly gathering global storm. At a time of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic nationalism, and ideological extremism, Rethinking the 1990s brings together a group of leading political scientists and historians who look back on that era of world-historical change to identify choices and pathways that have brought the world to this unsettled moment. Authors explore whether the United States and other countries could have made different choices in the 1990s to place the world order then envisioned by Western policymakers on a firmer foundation. Written in a highly engaging style, these wide-ranging essays offer new insight into the strategic choices, political trade-offs, and missed opportunities of that historic decade as well as much-needed perspective on the international pressures and domestic cross-pressures fracturing the liberal order today.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Making Sense of the 1990s: Choices, Pathways, and Missed OpportunitiesG. John Ikenberry and Peter TrubowitzPart 1: Brave New World: Liberal Consolidation or Transformation?2. How Recursive is Global Governance? Revisiting the Ordering Choices of the 1990sDan Drezner3. That Faustian Decade: The Financialization of the American EconomyJonathan Kirshner4. When Hegemony Mostly Worked: U.S. Relations with Europe and Japan during the 1990s Michael Mastanduno5. Responsible Sovereignty and Individual Accountability: Liberal Internationalist Aspirations from the 1990sJennifer M. WelshPart II: Taking Stock: Western Successes and Failures 6. Populism and the Durability of the Liberal Order in Eastern Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement Reconsidered Hilary Appel7. Who Lost Russia? The 1990s RevisitedMichael Cox8. Reconsidering Engagement with China: Authoritarian Power and International OrderMiles Kahler9. The Return of/to Europe and the New Politics of Globalism Harold JamesPart III: False Dawn: Western Overreach, or Underreach? 10. Ever Deeper and Wider? The Globalization of the Liberal International Order and the End of the Cold WarTanja A. Börzel11. The Liberal Order Reconsidered: Europe, the United States, and the Missteps of the 1990s Charles A. Kupchan12. Mistakes were Made: Revisiting the 1990s from the EU's Immediate NeighbourhoodAyse Zarakol13. On Breakthroughs, Deadlocks, and Rose-Gardens Lost in Between: The Failed Promise of North-South Cooperation Amrita Narlikar
