Faruk Tabak is assistant professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Hegemony, Rivalry, and the Trajectory of the World-System, Faruk Tabak; Chapter 2 The Bush Regime and the Collapse of the Postwar Geopolitical Structures, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 3 Rough Road to Empire, Giovanni Arrighi; Chapter 4 The U.S. Trajectory: Quantitative and Historical Reflections, Thomas Reifer, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Andrew Jorgenson; Chapter 5 The Trans-Atlantic Conflict Over Primacy, Peter Gowan; Chapter 6 Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs?, Ravi Arvind Palat; Chapter 7 Rising Intra-Core Rivalry and the U.S. Turn Toward East Asia, John Gulick; Chapter 8 Europe as Alternative Empire: A View from the Periphery, Ça?lar Keyder; Chapter 9 Hegemonic Rivalry and the Periphery: The Case of the Trans-Atlantic “Banana Wars”, Keith Nurse; Chapter 10 The Great Powers and the Global Environment in the Twentieth Century, John R. McNeill;

Allies as Rivals, though in lack of the fashionable word “empire” in its title, presents a much more nuanced analysis of U.S. transition from a hegemonic power (one that dominates through consent) into an imperial one…The coherency of the book is unusually high fo an edited volume…an array of cogent articles to remind us that U.S.’s current imperial turn is but the latest episode of U.S.’s protracted hegemonic decline since the 1970s…Allies as Rivals is indispensable on the shelf of any scholar interested in global political economic transformation. It is also an ideal text for graduate or advanced undergraduate class on international politics and globalization.”