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_d149895
020 _a9780743294089
040 _cCUS
082 _a320.1
_bTAL/T
100 _aTalbott, Strobe.
245 4 _aThe great experiment: the story of ancient empires, modern states and the quest for a global nation/
_cStrobe Talbott
260 _aNew York:
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2008.
300 _ax, 478 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
505 _aA gathering of tribes -- The imperial millennia -- Caravans at rest -- A light unto the nations -- The ecumenical state -- The poet and "the prince" -- Perpetual war and "perpetual peace" -- Blood and leather -- The American centuries -- Monsters to destroy -- Empty chairs -- The master builder -- A trusteeship of the powerful -- An end and a beginning -- The unipolar decades -- The new world order -- Seizing the day -- Hard power -- A theory of the case -- Going it alone -- A consequential aberration -- Conclusion: The crucial years.
650 _aGeopolitics
650 _aInternational organization
942 _cWB16