'Despite everything, the contemporary world order remains Anglo-American - and it is likely to stay that way. In this major new book James Cronin shows why this is so, combining a mastery of historical detail with an understanding of how geopolitics and political economy shape world politics. It is an absorbing read.' – Andrew Gamble, author of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession
'James Cronin's well-researched and supremely lucid analysis of the Anglo-American effort to shape international politics since the 1970s brilliantly fulfills the task for contemporary history -- to account as best as we currently can for the flux of events in which we are all immersed.' - Charles S. Maier, author of Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
'The defeat of the twentieth century's chief imperial tyrannies, in 1945 and 1989, twice compelled the creation of a new international order. James Cronin, one of our premier historians of modern Britain, grasps fully that the British as well as the Americans dominated these global reconstructions. At once sweeping and brilliantly detailed, Global Rules brilliantly reinterprets the burdens, achievements and shortcomings of leaders and governments rebuilding the world in the wake of catastrophe and collapse.' - Sean Wilentz, author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008
'A perceptive analysis and account of one of the critical relationships in international relations. Elegantly written, thoroughly researched, and persuasively argued, this is an essential read for anyone interested in the dynamics of the Anglo-American relationship and more broadly the working of the international system.' - Erik Goldstein, author of The First World War’s Peace Settlements: International Relations, 1918–1925
