# The Global Gamble

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- Book: [The Global Gamble](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gowan/the-global-gamble) ([The Global Gamble.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gowan/the-global-gamble.md))
- Authors: [Peter Gowan](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gowan)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-5984-271-3
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1999-08-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust’s, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of Mephistopheles...