David Held / Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (eds.)

American Power in the 21st Century

Ed. by David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

America wields a combination of military, economic and culturalpower that many consider unprecedented. The way America uses thispower has repercussions on every major issue of world affairs,including the prospects of regional security, the spread ofdemocratic governance, and the provision of global public goods ineconomic and environmental domains.

This volume explores the questions raised by American power from avariety of perspectives. Is the emphasis laid on military powerlikely to be self-defeating for the United States in the long run?Is "soft power" or persuasion a more effective way to promoteAmerican interests and goals? How is American predominanceperceived in Europe, China and the Arab world? Will it last or willother powers coalesce to resist US hegemony? The authors addressthese and other fundamental questions in rigorous and historicallysensitive analyses of this critical juncture in globalpolitics.

The book will be of great interest to students and scholars inpolitical science and international relations, as well as all thoseconcerned with and by one of the key topics of our time.

Contributors include: Robert Cooper, Michael Cox, Zhiyuan Cui,Abdelwahab El-Affendi, G. John Ikenberry, Robert Kagan, MaryKaldor, Joseph S. Nye, Thomas Risse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780745633473
• ISBN-10: 0745633471
• Artikelnr.: 14516827

Autorenporträt

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Lecturer in Global Politics, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors.
Editors' Preface.
Introduction: Whither American Power? David Held and Mathias
Koenig-Archibugi.
1. Empire? The Bush Doctrine and the Lessons of History Michael Cox.
2. The First Failed Empire of the Twenty-First Century Michael Mann.
3. Liberal Hegemony or Empire? American Power in the Age of Unipolarity G.
John Ikenberry.
4. Hard Power, Soft Power, and "The War on Terrorism" Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
5. Power and Weakness Robert Kagan.
6. The Goals of Diplomacy, Hard Power, and Soft Power Robert Cooper.
7. American Power: From "Compellance" to Cosmopolitanism? Mary Kaldor.
8. Beyond Iraq: The Crisis of the Transatlantic Security Community Thomas
Risse.
9. The Bush Doctrine: A Chinese Perspective Zhiyuan Cui.
10. Waiting for Armageddon: The "Mother of All Empires" and its Middle East
Quagmire Abdelwahab El-Affendi.
Index