The global financial crisis as world politics -- Learning from the Great Depression -- From the first to the second U.S. postwar order -- Seeds of discord: the Asian financial crisis -- The new American model and the financial crisis -- The crisis and world politics -- The crisis and the...

The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world. For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of...