Pax Americana? Hegemony or Decline

Is there a new world order? This is the key question that the author addresses in Pax Americana. In answering it, Hippler explores the rise and fall of the post-war order, the future of the Third World, the crises in the Gulf and the ideoloy and power centres of the "new world order". The author concludes that we are living in a world were the USA, armed to the teeth, remains the only global military power.