America Beyond 2001 | From Cold War to Cold Peace

Looking back, historians in the early twenty-first century are unlikely to have settled on any one explanation of how conflict among America, Japan, and Germany caused the new world order of the mid-to-late 1990s to become a nightmare. “Economic warfare” will not precisely describe what happened, because even though protectionism increased, business dealings, flows of money, and volumes of trade steadily increased among the major nations. “Military clashes” will not be accurate because Washington, Berlin, and Tokyo will certainly not have taken up arms against one another....

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