Debating A Post American World

Author : Sean Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136576738
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating a Post-American World written by Sean Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is currently the linchpin of global trade, technology, and finance, and a military colossus, extending across the world with a network of bases and alliances. This book anticipates the possible issues raised by a transition between American dominance and the rise of alternative powers. While a ‘post-American’ world need not be any different than that of today, the risk associated with such a change provides ample reason for attentive study. Divided into four parts, 50 international relations scholars explore and discuss: Power Transitions: addressing issues including the rise of China; the passing of American primacy and the endurance of American leadership. War and Peace: addressing nuclear weapons; the risk of war; security privatization and global insecurity Global Governance: addressing competition, trade, the UN, sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, law and power. Energy and the Environment: addressing resource conflict, petrol, climate change and technology. This unique project offers a compilation of disparate arguments by scholars and policy practitioners, encompassing a plurality of disciplines and theoretical perspectives. By providing clarity and focus to this essential debate on the future of the world in the next several decades, Debating a Post-American World will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations and global politics, American politics, US Foreign policy and International Security.

Author : Ralph B. Levering
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847694082
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Origins of the Cold War written by Ralph B. Levering and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist, and global vision of the post-World War II peace that most Americans believed in and the dictatorial, xenophobic, and regional approach that characterized Soviet policies. The authors argue that repeated failures to find mutually acceptable solutions to concrete problems led to the rapid development of the Cold War, and they conclude that, given the respective concerns and perspectives of the time, both superpowers were largely justified in their courses of action. Supplemented by primary sources, including documents detailing Soviet espionage in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s and correspondence between Premier Josef Stalin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov during postwar meetings, this is the first book to give equal attention to the U.S. and Soviet policies and perspectives.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393069396
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition) written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently.”—Washington Post Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how democracy has changed our politics, economies, and social relations. Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq and a wide-ranging update of the book's themes.

Author : Bret Stephens
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770899979
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place? written by Bret Stephens and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama. From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the United States is redefining its role in international affairs. Alliance building, public diplomacy, and eschewing traditional warfare in favour of the focused use of hard power such as drones and special forces are all hallmarks of the so-called Obama Doctrine. Is this a farsighted foreign policy for the United States and the world in the twenty-first century — one that acknowledges and embraces the increasing diffusion of power among states and non-state actors? Or, is an America “leading from behind” a boon for the nations and blocs who want to roll back economic globalization, international law, and the spread of democracy and human rights? In this edition of the Munk Debates, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bret Stephens and famed historian and foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan square off against CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and noted academic and political commentator Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama. With ISIS looking to reshape the Middle East, Russia increasingly at odds with the rest of the West, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a standstill, the Munk Debate on Foreign Policy asks: Has Obama’s foreign policy taken the U.S. in the right direction?

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745684653
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of American World Order written by Amitav Acharya and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself is declining, the post-war liberal world order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American hegemony? A regionalized system of global cooperation, including major and emerging powers? In this timely and provocative book, Amitav Acharya offers an incisive answer to this fundamental question. While the US will remain a major force in world affairs, he argues that it has lost the ability to shape world order after its own interests and image. As a result, the US will be one of a number of anchors including emerging powers, regional forces, and a concert of the old and new powers shaping a new world order. Rejecting labels such as multipolar, apolar, or G-Zero, Acharya likens the emerging system to a multiplex theatre, offering a choice of plots (ideas), directors (power), and action (leadership) under one roof. Finally, he reflects on the policies that the US, emerging powers and regional actors must pursue to promote stability in this decentred but interdependent, multiplex world. Written by a leading scholar of the international relations of the non-Western world, and rising above partisan punditry, this book represents a major contribution to debates over the post-American era.

Author : Eric Alterman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801435744
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Speaks for America? written by Eric Alterman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist and historian Eric Alterman argues that the vast majority of Americans have virtually no voice in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. With policymakers answerable only to a small coterie of self-appointed experts, corporate lobbyists, self-interested parties, and the elite media, the U.S. foreign policy operates not as the instrument of a democracy, but of a "pseudo-democracy": a political system with the trappings of democratic checks and balances but with little of their content. This failure of American democracy is all the more troubling, Alterman charges, now that the Cold War is over and the era of global capital has replaced it. Americans' stake in so-called foreign policy issues from trade to global warming is greater than ever. Yet the current system serves to mute their voices and ignore their concerns. Alterman concludes with a series of challenging proposals for reforms designed to create a truly democratic U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670082292
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-American World written by Fareed Zakaria and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fareed Zakaria, The Great Story Of Our Times Is The Rise Of The Rest The Growth Of Countries Like China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa And Kenya, Which Is Generating A New Global Landscape. Global Power Is Shifting, And Wealth And Innovation Are Bubbling Up In Unexpected Places: The Tallest Buildings, Biggest Dams, Top-Selling Movies And Most Advanced Mobile Phones Are All Being Built Or Made Outside The United States. Countries That Until Recently Lacked Political Confidence And National Pride Are Finding Them. As These Trends Continue, The Great Engine Of Globalization Will Increasingly Be Powered By Nationalism, Setting The World On A Course That Is Likely To Define The Next Decades, Yet Which It Is Not Yet Equipped To Tackle. The Current Political Debate In Much Of The First World Is Utterly Out Of Touch With This Broad Development, Obsessed With Issues Like Terrorism, Immigration And Economic Panics. The Real Challenges We Face Come From The Winners Not The Losers Of The New World. Zakaria Outlines The Contemporary Diffusion Of Power Throughout The World. With Lucidity, Insight And Imagination, He Draws On Lessons From The Two Great Power Shifts Of The Past 500 Years The Rise Of The Western World And The Rise Of The United States To Tell Us What We Can Expect From The Third Shift. The Great Challenge For Britain In The Twentieth Century Was Economic Decline. The Challenge For America In The Twenty-First Is Political Decline, For As Others Grow In Importance, The Central Role Of The United States Will Inevitably Shrink. Zakaria Argues That Washington Needs To Begin A Serious Transformation Of Its Global Strategy, Moving From Being The Dominating Hegemon To A Role That Is More Like An Honest Broker. It Must Seek To Share Power, Create Coalitions, Build Legitimacy And Defi Ne The Global Agenda All Formidable Tasks. None Of This Will Be Easy For The Only Power That Has Really Mattered For So Long. But As We Learn In This Incisive And Eloquent New Book, All That Is Changing Now. The Future The World Faces Is The Post-American World.

Author : Justin Massie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535740
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony written by Justin Massie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do America’s democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using the case-studies of Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and South East Asian countries, this book offers a broad assessment of the perceptions of threat and the strategies used by these allies to cope with the relative decline of America’s hegemonic power, the rise of China and the transforming world order. In answering these central questions, contributors focus on two complementary analytical approaches. The first examines the perceptions of systemic changes by America’s allies: how are US allies framing this issue and what kind of political discourse is emerging with regards to it? The second approach focuses on the concrete foreign policy and defence strategies put forward by these allies. The book explores the extent to which US allies are willing to support US hegemony and considers the democratic allies’ understanding of the international structure, their relations to the United States, and their own aspirations in this changing world order. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy, foreign policy analysis and International Relations.

Author : William R. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019753466X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Global Pre-Eminence written by William R. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most discussions of US decline in global politics couch their arguments and evidence in the most contemporary context. But the US follows a global lineage that has been emerging and evolving for centuries. In 'American Global Pre-Eminence', William R. Thompson argues that systemic leadership is based on a pecking order established by leads in technological innovation, energy, and global reach. The ultimate irony is that as it becomes clearer how these variables interact, the processes under scrutiny may be fundamentally transforming. Thompson asks whether it remain possible for a single state to lead the global system as in the past.

Author : C. L. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107075696
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Economic Law after the Global Crisis written by C. L. Lim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the theme of fragmentation within international economic law following the global financial crisis.