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- ISBN 9781839985539
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The book claims that the United States and the Soviet Union attained the mastery of the international order by projecting universalist values that responded to the particularist markers of the domestic order that was generated in the 1950s. The geopolitical orientation adopted by the superpowers in the 1950s was shaped by the way in which their societies developed politically, socially and economically in the 1950s. The main argument of this book is that the quest for the mastery of the international order that informed superpower relations in the 1950s was guided by the need to respond to the local circumstances that emerged in the United States and the Soviet Union. The particularist markers that arose in the 1950s led to the establishment of a geopolitical project underpinned by certain universalist values that could be applied in order to build the superpowers’ sphere of influence.
Nicolas Lewkowicz is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has studied in the UK at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Nottingham, where he received his PhD in history. He is currently Professor at UNICAF.
