TY - BOOK AU - Sargent,Daniel J. TI - A superpower transformed: the remaking of American foreign relations in the 1970s SN - 9780195395471 (hardcover : acid-free paper) AV - 002 E 855 S245s 2015 U1 - 327.73009/047 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Presidentes KW - Estados Unidos KW - Statesmen KW - Estadistas KW - Historia KW - Siglo XX KW - Great powers KW - Grandes potencias KW - Geopolitics KW - Geopolítica KW - Cold War KW - Guerra fría KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 KW - Politica mundial KW - Foreign relations KW - 1969-1974 KW - 1974-1977 KW - 1977-1981 KW - Decision making KW - Relaciones exteriores N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-407) and index; Pax Americana -- Part I. Reaching Backward -- In Pursuit of Primacy -- Geopolitics and Humanitarianism -- The Dollar and Decline -- Oil Shocked -- Part II. Stumbling Forward -- Managing Interdependence -- Human Rights and Dâetente -- World Order Politics -- The Revenge of Geopolitics N2 - "During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives--U.S. decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era. Their choices proved to be of enormous consequence for the development of American foreign policy in the final decades of the twentieth century and beyond. In A Superpower Transformed, historian Daniel J. Sargent chronicles how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era. Drawing on many newly-released archival documents and interviews with key figures, including President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Sargent explores the collision of geopolitics and globalization that pervaded the decade. From the Nixon administration's efforts to stabilize a faltering Pax Americana; to Henry Kissinger's attempts to devise new strategies to manage or mitigate the consequences of economic globalization after the oil crisis of 1973-74; to the Carter administration's embrace of human rights promotion as a central task for foreign policy, Sargent explores the challenges that afflicted US policymakers in the 1970s, offering new insights into the complexities that emerged as the new forces of globalization and human rights transformed the United States as a superpower. A sweeping reinterpretation of a pivotal era, A Superpower Transformed is a must-read for anyone interested in U.S. foreign relations, American politics, globalization, economic policy, human rights, and contemporary American history"-- ER -