Paradox of a Global USA

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.

• Contents Foreword by Strobe Talbott000 Contributors000 1. Introduction000 Bruce Mazlish 2. The Political Structure of a Global World: the Role of the United States000 Martin Shaw 3. Globalization as Americanization000 Akira Iriye 4. Expansion and Integration: Reflections on the History of America's Approach to Globalization000 David Reynolds 5. American Exceptionalism and Uneven Global Integration: Resistance to the Global Society000 Ian Tyrrell 6. Crisscrossing the Gods: Globalization and American Religion000 N. J. Demerath III 7. Reverse Flow: European Media in The United States000 Roberta E. Pearson and Nicola Simpson 8. Weary Titan, Assertive Hegemon: Military Stategy, Globalization and US Preponderance000 Ian Roxborough 9. Globalization and Empire: The Effects of 9/11 and the Iraq War000 James Kurth 10. Conclusion000 Bruce Mazlish Notes000 Index000

"Globalization is, in itself, neither a positive nor a negative phenomenon; it is a reality, a defining aspect of the modern condition. . . . Therefore, what is at issue is not whether we should support or oppose globalization but how we should respond to it as a reality, how we manage it and its consequences. It is that spirit that led Bruce Mazlish, one of the giants of intellectual and cultural history, and his fellow contributors to assemble this volume. They have provided a considerable—and timely—service in helping to integrate a field of academic inquiry that has tended to be balkanized. . . . The result is a disciplined yet imaginative volume relevant to scholars, policy makers, and interested citizens of an increasingly globalized world."—From the Preface by Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and Founding Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization