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Power and Willpower in the American Future : Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline.
This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Power and Willpower in the American Future; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Purpose; Primacy Past and Present; Responses to Decline; Information, Socialization, and National Identity; "Will versus Wallet" in the American Future; 2: Domestic and Global Interactions: Economics, Energy, and American Power; Financial Crises in Perspective; Competitiveness and Crisis Response; The Perils of Oil Import Dependence; Power and Domestic Capacity; 3: American Attitudes and Institutions; Public Attitudes.
- Domestic Doctrine and PolicyDomestic Capacity; Challenges and Challengers; 4: Threats to Persistent Primacy and the Rise of Others; Elusive Dangers: Volatility in Threat Assessment; Thinking about Threats; The Rise of Others; The Rise of China; China's Domestic Constraints; China and Its Neighbors; Tangible Threats and Shifts in the International Distribution of Power; Twenty-First-Century Realities; 5: Stretch or "Imperial Overstretch"?; Military Costs and Capabilities; Problems of Collective Action: Allies and Burden Sharing; Limits of Global Governance; Unipolarity and Apolarity.
- Commitments and Political Sustainability6: Power and Willpower in the American Future; Is This Time Different?; America's Edge; Ideas, Beliefs, and Policies; What Is to Be Done at Home; What Is to Be Done Abroad; Why the Declinists Are Wrong Again; Index.