TEC B19143

• The author was working at the Institute for Policy Studies on a project for the UNU's subprogramme on 'Peace and Global Transformations' directed by Mary Kaldor.

UNU B19139

• The author was working at the Institute for Policy Studies on a project for the UNU's subprogramme on 'Peace and Global Transformations' directed by Mary Kaldor.

1. A 'Technological Fix' for the Crisis of US Hegemony?

2 Between Decline and Restoration 2.1 The framework for the analysis 2.2 Changing regimes of accumulation 2.3 Changing roles of the state 2.4 The hypothesis: technological strategies and US hegemony

3 Economic Processes 3.1 Growth, employment and productivity in the US, Europe and Japan 3.2 International trade and industrial competitiveness 3.3 International corporate strategies 3.4 The debate on the American decline 3.5 The US military economy 3.6 The US international economic strategies

4 Technological Strategies 4.1 The dynamics of technological change 4.2 The technological performances of the US, Europe and Japan 4.3 The effects of military technology 4.4 The technological strategies of corporations 4.5 The case of semiconductors 4.6 The case of telecommunications 4.7 The international technological strategies of governments 4.8 The case of US controls on technology transfer 4.9 The case of the US Strategic Defence Initiative

5 The US Strategy and the Alternatives for Europe 5.1 The American decline 5.2 A strategy of 'Technological Star Wars' 5.3 The contradictions of the US strategy 5.4 The alternatives for Europe