Contents: 1. Sino-America relations studies in China 2. Japanese scholarship in the history of U.S.-East Asian relations 3. Geopolitics and ideology in the mirror of Russian historigraphy etc.
This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last 15 years of foreign policy, since the end of the Cold War, in relation to the last 40 years. In 1989, the US emerged as victor from the Cold War struggle. But what did victory mean? In the US, commentators were divided in their views: some feared their nation's eclipse by more successful trading powers or blo…