Toward a New American Century? The US Hegemon in Motion

Guest Editor: Bernd W. Kubbig (Frankfurt/Main)

BERND W. KUBBIG
Introduction: The US Hegemon in the 'American Century.' The State of the Art and the German Contributions

RUDOLF WITZEL
Blueprints of American Global Policy since 1945

BEATE NEUSS
'Benign Hegemonic Power': A Means of Refashioning Western Europe in the Image of the United States?

JULIA ANGSTER
'Safe By Democracy': American Hegemony and the 'Westernization' of West German Labor

CHRISTOPHSCHERRER
DoubleHegemony? State and Class in American Foreign Economic Policymaking

HELMUT HUBEL, MARKUS KAIM and OLIVER LEMBCKE
The United States in Regional Orders: Pax Americana as an Analytical Concept

SEBASTIAN HARNISCH
The Hegemon and the Demon: US Nuclear Learning vis-à-vis North Korea

BERND W. KUBBIG, MATTHIAS DEMBINSKI and ALEXANDER KELLE
The Primacy of Unilateralism: The American Superpower and the International Organizations in the Clinton Era

REINHARD WOLF
Hegemon without Challengers? US Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

BERND W. KUBBIG
Between Self-Restraint and 'All Options Open': Positioning the US Hegemon in the Democratic/Non-Democratic Divide. Conclusions

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Reviews

DIETER K. BUSE
Manfred Boemeke, Roger Chickering, and Stig Förster, eds., Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914

OLAF STIEGLITZ
Fiona Venn, The New Deal

JESSICA GIENOW-HECHT
Volker Depkat, Amerikabilder in politischen Diskursen: Deutsche Zeitschriften von 1789 bis 1830

MANFRED REDELFS
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955

HELMUT KLUMPJAN
Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman, eds., The Clinton Legacy

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CARMEN BIRKLE and MANFRED SIEBALD
Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2000