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The Decline of American Power
Immanuel Wallerstein
出版
New Press, The
, 2012-09-04
主題
Political Science / History & Theory
History / United States / 21st Century
Political Science / Globalization
ISBN
159558725X
9781595587251
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HwcNKXjLWOEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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
