寄与者Tanaka Akihiko ; translated by Jean Connell Hoff.
一般注記What was the Cold War? -- The Cold War as a bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR -- The Cold War as a clash of ideologies -- The Post-Cold War world -- The final stages of the Cold War -- The significance of the end of the Cold War -- The American hegemony -- Hegemon and superpower -- The functions of hegemony -- The basis for hegemony -- What did the American hegemony achieve? -- After hegemony -- The decline of the American hegemony -- The impact of hegemonic decline -- The theory of hegemonic decline -- An increasingly interdependent world -- Indicators of interdependence -- Interstate interdependence -- The institutionalization of interdependence -- Theories of interdependence -- Regulating interdependence -- A "new medievalism"? -- The distinctive features of the European Middle Ages -- The modern world system -- The three spheres -- What are the three spheres? -- Interaction among the three spheres -- Asia and the Pacific -- Three sets of problems -- What should Japan do? -- Japan's role.
At head of title: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan.
Translation of: Atarashii "chūsei".