A brief history of now : the past and present of global power

A brief history of now : the past and present of global power / Diego Olstein.

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today. Although at first the urgency of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 seemed to take precedence over other global pr...

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Main Author: Olstein, Diego Adrián (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
1800-2099
History, Modern > 19th century.
History, Modern > 20th century.
History, Modern > 21st century.
World politics > 19th century.
World politics > 20th century.
World politics > 21st century.
Economic history > 19th century.
Economic history > 20th century.
Economic history > 21st century.
Economic history > 1750-1918.
Economic history
History, Modern
World politics
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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction: Setting the Frame --  |t Now --  |t Economic Globalization --  |t World Hegemony --  |t Democracy --  |t Socioeconomic Inequality Within and Between Societies --  |t Technological Innovations --  |t Climate Change --  |t Now and then: Trajectories in Global History --  |g 2.  |t We Were All Brits (1851 -- 1914) --  |t Hegemony, What Is It? --  |t Industrial Revolution --  |t Which Pyramid? --  |t The Industrial "Gradualution" --  |t Democratic Revolution --  |t The Synergic Revolutions --  |t Non-Identical Twins --  |t An Experiment with Synergy --  |t Another Set of Twins: Free Trade and Comparative Advantage --  |t Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: At Home in Western Europe --  |t Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: Playing "Catch-22" with Gunpowder Empires --  |t Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour and the American Divergence --  |t Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: The Scramble for Africa --  |t First Globalization and Britannization --  |t Spoiling the Hegemonic Party: The Exceptional Outliers --  |t All Aboard! Welcome to the Global Train --  |g 3.  |t Until the "Big Brexit" (1914 -- 1945) --  |t A Globally Convoluted Interplay --  |t Contested Hegemony, Head-On --  |t A Bigger Brother --  |t A Strange Couple --  |t A Global Communist Revolution --  |t Surprising Success --  |t By Reaction Against --  |t Directly Guided --  |t By Imitation --  |t Failure, the Mother of Improvisation --  |t The Carousel of Revolution --  |t The Other Carousel: Reaction --  |t A World Safe for Democracy --  |t It's the Economy, Stupid! --  |t A Game Changer --  |t Second Round --  |t So Long to the Global Train! --  |g 4.  |t When We Became Americans (1946 -- 1973) --  |t The World Series --  |t Hegemony and Empire: Great Britain --  |t Hegemony and Empire: The United States --  |t Two Centuries at Odds -- And Counting --  |t A Fourfold Big Stick --  |t A Huge Carrot Named the U.S. Economy --  |t An Alluring Dream Named the American Dream --  |t The Swirling Synergy of the American Triplets --  |t Great Britain: 20 -- United States: 34. A Different Model for World Hegemony --  |g 5.  |t Or Else (1946 -- 1973) --  |t A Very Straightforward Global Story for a Very Straightforward Answer --  |t From War to War to Cold War --  |t On the Right Side of the World Hegemon --  |t On the Wrong Side of the Counter-Hegemon --  |t The Soviet Union and China --  |t The Counter-Hegemonic Triplets: Powerful, but not as Much --  |t Under the Tracks of Entwined Nationalism and Socialism: Peron, Evita, and the Socialist Fatherland --  |t Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Throughout the Latin American Oligarchic Republics --  |t Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in Recently Emancipated Colonies Throughout the Middle East --  |t Straightforward: From Decolonization into Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa --  |t Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Around the World: The Global Rise of Anti-Hegemonic Party States --  |t Pyramids into Diamonds --  |g 6.  |t All Together Now: Becoming Global Citizens (1968 -- 2003) --  |t The Revolutionary Processes (1968 -- 1991): E Pluribus Unum (One Out of Many) --  |t 1968, A Global Revolt --  |t 1973, The Tom Kippur or Ramadan War --  |t 1978, Deng Xiaoping Means "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" --  |t 1982, Malvinas/Falkland Islands War --  |t 1985, Gorbachev Means Glasnost and Perestroika --  |t 1989, A Global Revolution --  |t 1991, Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled --  |t Everything Falling into Place --  |t The Revolutionary Results: Neoliberal Reforms, Stronger Than Revolutions --  |t Neoliberalism Means Growing Inequalities: The "Great Bifurcation" --  |t From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl --  |t Third Wave of Democracy --  |g 7.  |t Falling Apart. Back to Nationalism (2003 -- 2020) --  |t Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled but Spiraling Down --  |t Shaken American World Hegemony --  |t 2007 Shaken Neoliberal Globalization --  |t Neoliberalism Challenged Around the World --  |t A Couple of Trump Cards: Technological and Ecological Disruptions --  |g 8.  |t The Big Picture: Overall Patterns Amidst Convoluted Developments --  |t A Brief Recapitulation of Convoluted Developments --  |t Overall Patterns: Fivefold Correspondences --  |t Overall Patterns and Some of the Questions of the Present and Future --  |t Global Trajectories Crystalized in Global Regimes. 
520 |a Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today. Although at first the urgency of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 seemed to take precedence over other global problems such as socioeconomic inequality and climate change, it has ultimately exacerbated these issues and created opportunities to address them boldly and innovatively. A Brief History of Now provides a birds-eye view of world hegemony, economic globalization and political regimes as they have evolved and developed over the last two hundred years, providing context and insights into the forces which have shaped our contemporary world. Presented in an accessible and engaging narrative, the book addresses key contemporary challenges and explores the repercussions of a technological revolution, the potential instability of democracy over the coming years, and the urgent struggle to tackle climate change. With his book, Diego Olstein helps to answer pressing questions about our world today and provides a roadmap for analysing future trajectories. 
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