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Introduction: Internationalism and Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy 1. - Chapter 1: Accidental Policymaker 7. - Chapter 2: Constructing a Post-Vietnam War Foreign Policy 29. - Chapter 3: Internationalism Under Fire 63. - Chapter 4: Internationalism Triumphant: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War 91. - Chapter 5: The Gulf War and the New World Order 137. - Chapter 6: Elder Statesman 171

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to World War II, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor. As late as 1940, the small coterie formulating U.S. foreign policy wanted British preeminence to continue. Axis conquests swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that America should extend its form of law and order across the globe, and back it at gunpoint. No one really favored "isolationism"—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy to burnish their cause. We live, Wertheim warns, in the world these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned account that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today's endless wars.

(1): Report. - XII,278 S.; Vol. 3: Appendix H-I. - VI,344 S.,; Vol. 4: Appendix K. - IX,475 S., 10 graph. Darst., 7 Tab.; Vol. 6: Appendix O-T. - VI,462 S.; Vol. 7: Appendix U-X. - VI,337 S

Stern, P. ; Chasen, L. R.: Organizing to compete in a global economy. - S. 1-26. Roth, W. V.: The future of the Commerce Department. - S. 27-30. Roth, W. V.: Restructuring of Commerce ideal starting point for government-wide restructuring. - S. 31-34. Mica, J. L.: Case for a unified trade office. - S. 35-40