Safe Passage - The Transition from British to American Hegemony
                                
                                
                             
                            
                         
                            
                            
                        History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this transition was nonviolent, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis between Britain and the U.S., from the Monroe Doctrine to the unequal "special relationship" during World War II.