Understanding American Power

Bryan Mabee is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

"There is so much polemic surrounding the debate about America's role in the world that it is a great relief to read Mabee's carefully constructed, empirically rich and analytically superior work on the real as opposed to the imagined position of the United States in the modern world order. At last, a book I can completely recommend to students and scholars alike." - Michael Cox, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK "[A] first-rate discussion of evolving US global hegemony... lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated and persuasive. Mabee's confidently rooted, historical understanding of contemporary issues shines through on nearly every page." - John Dumbrell, International Affairs "Mabee argues that analysis of US power are incomplete without a focus on the domestic source of power. Though his central purpose is to examine US power in the world today, he carefully defines power as a function of both system- and state-level variables." - Choice

• Introduction: American Power in the World1. The Rise of American Power2. American Power and International Relations3. The Power of the State and the Foreign-Policy Process4. The Evolution of Military Power: An American Way of War?5. The Rise (and Fall?) of American Economic Power6. The Power of American Values: Ideology and Identity in American Foreign Policy7. Responses to American PowerConclusion: The Second American Century and Beyond.