Abstract
Many comments and analyses of the American victory in the Gulf War centre around two themes: military prowess and the ‘revival’ of lost hegemony. Both, however, reflect a superficial understanding of the real sources of US power.
The research on which this article is based has been supported at various stages by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, the Yale International Security Program, and the European University Institute in Florence.
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Hearing before the Committee on Appropriations, Senate, ‘Supplemental Appropriations for Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Fiscal Year 1991’, 26 February 1991.
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‘At the UN, Many Issues Are Called, but only one is Chosen: Persian Gulf, New York Times, 27 September 1990.
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Grunberg, I. (1993). The Persian Gulf War and the Myth of Lost Hegemony. In: Morgan, R., Lorentzen, J., Leander, A., Guzzini, S. (eds) New Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22738-9_22
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