Post american world ebook

The current political debate in much of the first world is utterly out of touch with this broad development, obsessed with issues like terrorism, immigration and economic panics. The real challenges we face come from the winners not the losers of the new world. Zakaria outlines the contemporary diffusion of power throughout the world.

With lucidity, insight and imagination, he draws on lessons form the two great power shifts of the past years - the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States - to tell us what we can expect from the third shift. The great challenge for Britain in the twentieth century was economic decline. The challenge for America in the twenty-first is political decline, for as others grow in importance, the central role of the United States will inevitably shrink.

Zakaria argues that Washington needs to begin a serious transformation of its global strategy, moving from being the domination hegemon to a role that is more like an honest broker.

It must seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy and define the global agenda - all formidable tasks. None of this will be easy for the only power that has really mattered for so long.

But as we learn in the incisive and eloquent new book, all that is changing now. The future the world faces is the post-American world. Countries that until recently lacked political confidence and national. Explores how the rapid rise of such nations as China, India, and Brazil is countering America's previous dominance over the global economy, geopolitics, and culture, and shares advice on how the United States can thrive in the face of international changes.

The United States is currently the linchpin of global trade, technology, and finance, and a military colossus, extending across the world with a network of bases and alliances. This book anticipates the possible issues raised by a transition between American dominance and the rise of alternative powers.

Divided into four parts, 50 international relations scholars. None of this will be easy for the only power that has really mattered for so long.

But as we learn in the incisive and eloquent new book, all that is changing now. The future the world faces is the post-American world. Home The Post-American World. Their developmental states had transformed themselves into champions of science and technology. By contrast, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico had experienced a wave of acquisitions and mergers that left even more of their leading enterprises controlled by multinational firms.

Which model of late industrialization will prevail, the "independent" or the "integrationist," is a question that challenges the twenty-first century. Score: 5. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the fall, we must determine what it means to be American again. In , as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart.

To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outwards. Over the next three years, he travelled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart.

Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance. After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. At the same time, he learns from a diverse set of characters — from Obama to rebels to a rising generation of leaders — how looking squarely at where America has gone wrong only makes it more essential to fight for what America is supposed to be — for itself, and for the entire world.

Makes you see the world differently. The Future of Freedom? Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq and a wide-ranging update of the book's themes. The purpose of U. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Bacevich—founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy—lays down a new approach—one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort.

Confronting the threats of the future—accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war—his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security.

Crucial and provocative, After the Apocalypse sets out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world. After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity in policies between Obama and his predecessor.

Robert Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strategic engagement' was appropriate for a new era of constrained internationalism, but it has yielded modest results. Obama's search for the pragmatic middle has cost him political support at home and abroad, whilst failing to make decisive gains. Singh suggests by calibrating his foreign policies to the emergence of a 'post-American'world, the president has yet to preside over a renaissance of US global leadership.

We are living in a peaceful era, he maintains; world violence peaked around and has plummeted to a record low. Burgeoning prosperity has spread to the developing world, raising standards of living in Brazil, India, China andIndonesia.