| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Exceptionalism -- United States
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National characteristics, American.
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Economic history
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Exceptionalism
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National characteristics, American
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Social conditions
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009006641
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United States -- Social conditions -- 2009-
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139377096 |
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1139377094 |
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052128127X |
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9780521281270 |
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9780511862588 |
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051186258X |
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