Umfang:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107010680
,
9781139375665
Inhalt:
This book argues against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline. Today's problems are less severe than those the United States has overcome in the past. Ultimately, the ability to avoid serious decline is less a question of material factors than of policy, leadership and political will
Anmerkung:
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 Policy -- Domestic 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 Sustainability -- 6: 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
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Lieber, Robert J. Power and Willpower in the American Future New York : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9781107010680
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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