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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lieber, Robert J., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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520 |a "'The United States cannot afford another decline like that which has characterized the past decade and a half ... Only self-delusion can keep us from admitting our decline to ourselves.' -- Henry A. Kissinger, 1961. In the above words, one of America's most distinguished strategic thinkers and policymakers expresses alarm at America's condition and the perils it faces. The warning seems timely, yet it was written more than half a century ago as an assessment of the Soviet threat, problems with allies and the developing world, and in frustration with what the author saw as dangerously inadequate policy and strategic choices. Henry Kissinger was by no means alone. He cited George Kennan's lament about our domestic failings with race, the cities, the education and environment of our young people, and the gap between expert knowledge and popular understanding, even while criticizing Kennan's focus on those problems to the exclusion of military and diplomatic threats"--Provided by publisher 
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