Can you talk on what these were, and what consequences did this have for the twenty-first century?

Yes.

Well, I would like to emphasize that the book shows that there were successes that were kind of double-edged in their character, as Peter's just suggested.

What is most remarkable about the nineteen nineties was how active and activist and ambitious liberals and liberal internationalists were, and how eager countries and peoples in Europe and Asia and Latin America wanted to join this expanding capitalist democratic order, which generated trade and exchange and human betterment.

You might even argue the year two thousand, the end of the century, the end of the millennium, might be the year that you could argue was the greatest year that humans have lived on Earth.

There would be no other time or place that you would wanna be in history, not even the second century of the Roman Empire, in terms of the experience of physical security, of benefits of wealth and growth, and a glimmering of social justice.

So this is a time that wherever you were, a kind of John Rawlsian kind of, you don't quite know where you're gonna end up, but what year would you like to plop down somewhere on Earth, it might be that period.

And so in the US one was more appealing to many when they compared it to the alternative.