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With the cold war over and the Soviet empire dead, a new examination of American national policies and priorities is beginning. At the end of World War II, it became the leader of the free world, a world empire of unprecedented power.

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The Next Cold War sounds a warning: the United States may be contributing to another cold war through its competitive unilateral and regional economic policies. Whereas wars of the past usually resulted from political conflict, Hanson warns that a new cold war may result from economic conflict.