Garten, Jeffrey E

A cold peace : America, Japan, Germany, and the struggle for supremacy / Jeffrey E Garten. - New York : Times Books, ©1992. - viii, 277 p. ; 24 cm. - A Twentieth Century Fund Book . - 327(73+43+52) . - A Twentieth Century Fund Book .

With hard-and supercover

Includes bibliography and index

Cont.: viii, 277 pages ; 25 cm Contents: Challenging old assumptions -- Germany and Japan in the American mind -- Different historical legacies -- Different kinds of capitalism -- Open vs. closed societies -- Dividing up the world -- The leadership vacuum -- America in the American mind.

No issue may be more crucial to America's standing in the world and to its ability to solve its social and economic problems at home than its widening competition with Japan and Germany. In A Cold Peace, Jeffrey E. Garten, an investment banker who has served in the White House and the State Department, shines an intense light on the growing conflicts with our two most important allies and rivals--and on the critical Read more...

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World politics--1985-1995


United States--Relations--Japan
United States--Forein relations--1989
United States--Relations--Germany

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