Failed Imagination?: New World Orders of the Twentieth Century

by Andrew J. Williams

The existence of a "New World Order" has been proclaimed three times this century, each time by an American President. "Failed Imagination?" examines the processes that gave rise to the first two of these "Orders," during the First and Second World Wars, and also asks where these ideas have now led us after the third such experience, in 1989. Andrew Williams aims to show how lofty ideas came to be translated into policy and how they became distorted in the process.

332 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999