Unipolarity and the evolution of America's Cold War alliances / Nigel R. Thalakada.
By: Thalakada, Nigel [author.].
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: x, 198p.ISBN: 9780230368132.Subject(s): Alliances -- History | Alliances -- History | Balance of power -- History | Unipolarity (International relations)DDC classification: 327.73 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the purpose of alliances; the end of the Cold War and the changing nature of alliances -- Management-of-power -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- The United States-Japan alliance -- The United States-South Korea alliance -- The Australia-New Zealand-United States alliance.
Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US alliances highlighting the trend from regionally-based to more globally-active alliances.
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