Power and willpower in the American future : why the United States is not destined to decline /
"To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and serious. Yet if we take a longer view, much of the discourse about decline appears exaggerated, hyperbolic and ahistorical. Why? First, because of the deep underlying...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The American future: problems of primacy, policy, and purpose
- 2. Domestic and global interactions: economics, energy, and American power
- 3. American attitudes and institutions
- 4. Threats to persistent primacy and the rise of others
- 5. Stretch or 'imperial overstretch'?
- 6. Power and willpower in the American future.