Fall of the US Empire

Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war – accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade – and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan.This book intervenes in the debates surrounding America's status as an empire. It analyses Immanuel Wallerstein and others who argue that the US is in decline, to those who maintain that it remains a robust superpower. By explaining how America's neo-imperial system of governance has been working since WWII, it links the US's domestic and foreign vulnerabilities. The Fall of the US Empire argues that the time has come to understand the US empire not by its power but by its systemic vulnerabilities of financialisation, resource depletion and environmental degradation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-14
Mått:135 x 215 x 13 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745326436

Utforska kategorier

Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of Cyprus (Pluto, 2009), The Fall of the US Empire (Pluto, 2012) and Zones of Conflict (Pluto, 2003).Bulent Gokay is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of The Politics of Caspian Oil (2001), Eastern Europe Since 1970 (2005, 2006), Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991 (2006), Politics of Oil: A Survey (2007), and Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States (with Ben Fowkes, 2011). He is the founder of globalfaultlines.com.

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'This absorbing book makes a remarkable contribution to the current version of this very important debate, while revisiting its previous versions ... stimulating reading'

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of Tables, Graphs and MapsIntroduction1. Global Fault-lines2. Bretton Woods to the Abyss of Globalisation, 1944-19713. The Failure of Financial Statecraft [1], 1971-19914. The Failure of Financial Statecraft [2], 1991-20115. The Power-Shift to the Global East6. Resources Depletion and Environmental DegradationConclusionBibliographyIndex