The decline of American power : the U.S. in a chaotic world

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Author:

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-

ISBN:

9781565847996

9781565848313

Personal Author:

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-

Publication Information:

New York., NY : New Press, c2003.

Physical Description:

ix., 324p. : 19cm.

General Note:

Includes Index

Contents:

Introduction: The American Dream Between Yesterday and Tomorrow -- Pt. I. The Thesis -- 1. Decline of the United States: The Eagle Has Crash Landed -- Pt. II. Multiple Rhetorics and Realities -- 2. The Twentieth Century: Darkness at Noon? -- 3. Globalization: A Long-Term Trajectory of the World-System -- 4. Racism: Our Albatross -- 5. Islam: Islam, the West, and the World -- 6. The Others: Who Are We? Who Are the Others? -- 7. Democracy: Rhetoric or Reality? -- 8. Intellectuals: Value-Neutrality in Question -- 9. America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor -- Pt. III. Where Are We Heading? -- 10. The Left, I: Theory and Praxis Once Again -- 11. The Left, II: An Age of Transition -- 12. The Movements: What Does It Mean to Be an Antisystemic Movement Today? -- 13. Geopolitical Cleavages of the Twenty-First Century: What Future for The World? -- Afterword 1: The Righteous War -- Afterword 2: "Shock and Awe?"

Subject Term:

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Political culture -- United States.

Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.

Right and left (Political science)

Social movements.

World politics -- 21st century -- Forecasting.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-

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The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times ).

The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.

The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: America is now in a position of unprecedented global supremacy. But in fact, Immanuel Wallerstein argues, a more nuanced evaluation of recent history reveals that America has been fading as a global power since the end of the Vietnam War, and its response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 looks certain to hasten that decline. In this provocative collection, the visionary originator of world-systems analysis and the most innovative social scientist of his generation turns a practiced analytical eye to the turbulent beginnings of the twenty-first century. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals, and the state of the left wing, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyed--and troubling--assessment of the crumbling international order.

"[Wallerstein's thought] provides a new framework for the subject of European history . . . it is compelling, a new explanation, a new classification, indeed a revolutionary one, of received knowledge and current thought." --Fernand Braudel