| 格式化内容附注: | Introduction: the American world order is passe? -- Road to perdition: the American debacle in Afghanistan -- Specter of globalization: the rise and fall of the Pax Americana -- Globalization of oil: cartel, cult of monopoly, and synthetic competition -- The origin and fabric of globalization -- Globalization: identity, fallacy, and spurious temptations -- COVID and negative price of oil -- COVID's bio-economic crisis and post-pandemic world -- Conclusion: the rise and the fall of American power |