This volume highlights the notion that the phrase "American Century" implies the diffusion internationally of liberal capitalist principles. It suggests that the role of the US in diffusing those principles is at the heart of the debate about the significance of American global influence.

These essays highlight the notion that the phrase "American Century" implies the diffusion internationally of liberal capitalist principles. This book suggests that the role of the United States in diffusing those principles is at the heart of the debate about the significance of American global influence, whether in retrospect or in prospect. Includes the views of Asian, Antipodean, and American Scholars.

The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect by Roberto Rabel
The United States and the Making of a Global Community by Akira Iriye
How the United States Sold Its Soul to Win the Cold War (And as a Result Cannot Develop a Coherent Post-Cold War Foreign Policy) by Joan Hoff
The Global Environment in the American Century by John R. McNeill
The United States and International Security in the 21st Century by Robert J. Lieber
Challenges for United States Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Engagement and Globalization across the Pacific by Gilbert Rozman
Foreign Policy Legacies of the Clinton Administration for American Administrations in the 21st Century by James M. McCormick
The United States and Japan: Beyond Bilateralism? by Akiko Fukushima
The United States and the United Nations by Terence O'Brien
Australia and Americanization: The Case of the Vietnam Experience by Peter Edwards
Small Country, Big Country by Denis McLean
American Economic Leadership: A New Zealand Perspective by Stephen Hoadley
New Zealand in the American Century by Erik Olssen
Index.