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The Decline of American Power
The U.S. in a Chaotic World
by Immanuel Wallerstein
ISBN: 1565847997
ISBN-13: 9781565847996
Format: Paperback
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"Provocative, if wholly arguable, and likely to enjoy wide circulation among the antiglobalism contingent."
-- Kirkus
"[E]ven if one finds Wallerstein's model of the world system too schematic and undifferentiated, he is still worth reading for the tremendous breadth of his scholarship and the fecundity of his insights." -- Anatol Lieven
-- Nation
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: New Pr
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 7.25 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 324
Publisher's Notes
The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American Empire.
Today, the United States is 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.—From The Decline of American Power
The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: that 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 September 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 21st century. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals,
and the state of the Left, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyed—and troubling—assessment of the crumbling international order.
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