The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present

Warren I. Cohen is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Cohen has published nineteen books, the best known of which is America's Response to China, 5th edition (2010). In addition to scholarly publications, Professor Cohen has written for Atlantic Monthly, the Baltimore Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Nation, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Washington Post. He has served as the president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and chairman of the US Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. Professor Cohen has also been a consultant on Chinese affairs to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the CIA, the Department of State, two governors of Michigan and three directors of the Michigan Department of Commerce.

• List of maps; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Cold War: 1. At war's end: visions of a new world order; 2. Origins of the Cold War; 3. The Korean War and its consequences; 4. New leaders and new arenas in the Cold War; 5. Crisis revolution; 6. America's longest war; 7. The rise and fall of détente; 8. In God's country; 9. America and the world, 1945–91; Part II. After the Cold War: 10. The new world order; 11. The 'war' against terrorism; Bibliographic essay; Index.

'Warren I. Cohen qualifies as the dean of America's diplomatic historians. In this brilliant new volume, he brings to bear all his experience, perspective, and extraordinary insight to describe America's struggles for primacy in the world over the past seven decades. This book is a remarkable achievement.' James Mann, The Johns Hopkins University