figuring out its role overall as well as in each crisis.
Steel points out that as the United Stares struggles to find its role in the world, other nations are surging forward. However, the economic strength of the United States is much stronger in 1999 than it was in 1994-95 when Steel completed his book and had it published (5). Still, as strong as the nation is economically, it cannot afford to play either savior or policeman to the world, spending far more than other nations in the various crises since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The "victory" over the Soviet Union, says Steel, has been somewhat of a hollow victory. It is almost as if the united States had been addicted to Cold war foreign policy since the end
of World War II, and with the fall of the Soviet Union the United States w
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