The Paradox of a Global USA

by Mazlish, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780804751568
• ISBN10: 0804751560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-09
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

The Paradox of a Global USAdescribes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both central components of the process of globalization. On the other hand, it appears to be resolutely determined not to live within an institutional framework of globalized authority. As the world's only superpower, the United States is often perceived as championing its own narrow national sovereigntyfor example, by opposing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and by taking action in Iraq outside the auspices of the UN. The book treats the paradox of American exceptionalism and globalization as a "local" happening within the broader process of globalization. These essays analyze the ways in which the USA has both played a role in, and reacted against, emerging present-day globalization. Examples are drawn from the fields of history, political science, cultural studies, and economics, making this collection one of the very few to link together so diverse a group of authors and approaches to the subject of global USA.

Author Biography

Bruce Mazlish is Professor of History Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding director of the New Global History Initiative. Nayan Chanda is the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Kenneth Weisbrode is a Councillor of the Atlantic Council of the United States.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Political Structure of a Global World: The Role of the United States	p. 16
Globalization as Americanization?	p. 31
Expansion and Integration: Reflections on the History of America's Approach to Globalization	p. 49
American Exceptionalism and Uneven Global Integration: Resistance to the Global Society	p. 64
Crisscrossing the Gods: Globalization and American Religion	p. 81
Reverse Flow: European Media in the United States	p. 103
Weary Titan, Assertive Hegemon: Military Strategy, Globalization, and U.S. Preponderance	p. 122
Globalization and Empire: The Effects of 9/11 and the Iraq War	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 173
Notes	p. 185
Index	p. 209
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