Is the American Century Over? E-Book

Joseph S. Nye

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Global Futures
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 151

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two titans?

In this compelling essay, world renowned foreign policy analyst, Joseph Nye, explains why the American century is far from over and what the US must do to retain its lead in an era of increasingly diffuse power politics. America's superpower status may well be tempered by its own domestic problems and China's economic boom, he argues, but its military, economic and soft power capabilities will continue to outstrip those of its closest rivals for decades to come.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

The Creation of the American Century

When did the century start?

Myths of American hegemony

Half-hegemony

Notes

American Decline?

Lessons from history

Notes

Challengers and Relative Decline

Europe

Japan

Russia

India

Brazil

Notes

The Rise of China

Economic power

Military power

Soft Power

China’s strategy and American responses

American responses

Notes

Absolute Decline: Is America Like Rome?

Society and culture

The Economy

Political institutions

Conclusions

Notes

Power Shifts and Global Complexity

Greater complexity

The world in 2030

The information revolution and power diffusion

Notes

Conclusions

Net assessment and the balance of power

Strategy choices

Notes

Further Reading

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

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“The future of American power is the great question of our century. No one is better equipped than Joe Nye to answer it.”

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (ret.) former Presidential National Security Advisor

“This calm, reflective, and thoughtful antidote to alarm about American decline displays Nye’s astonishing capacity to engage with the full range of challenges to American leadership.”

Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School

“In this timely, compact book, Joe Nye makes a ‘powerful’ case for the continuation of American primacy through diplomacy and cooperation. This strategy would not be overstretch or retrenchment but instead the application of American exceptionalism to shrewd power.”

Robert B. Zoellick, former President of the World Bank Group, US Trade Representative, and US Deputy Secretary of State

“The irreversibility of American decline is no longer a given. Joe Nye’s compelling analysis shows that the future of the international order, and the respective roles of the US and China within it, will be shaped by a range of core domestic and foreign policy choices, rather than by some overwhelming, determinist, historical force that has somehow already decided the ‘natural’ dimensions, depth, and duration of American power. The history of nations, as Joe Nye rightly asserts, is a more dynamic process than that.”

Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia

“Joe Nye is always worth reading – objective without being aloof, insightful without lecturing. Our disordered world needs answers to the challenges posed here.”

David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary 2007–10

“Nye’s masterful analysis shows the defenders of America’s continued primacy how to make their most credible case while forcing the declinists to engage with its arguments, and even rethink their assumptions.”

Amitav Acharya, American University, and author of The End of American World Order

“In this tour de force, Joe Nye proves that smart books about big ideas are best served in small packages: and if you are looking for one volume to read on a topic about which so much nonsense has been written since the disaster that was the Bush administration, this is the one to go for. Balanced, accessible, informed – but above all, wise – Nye demonstrates once more why he continues to influence the way we all think about the world.”

Michael Cox, LSE IDEAS

“Joe Nye’s clear-eyed analysis makes a very compelling case that the ‘American century’ is far from over, even though, with a less preponderant America and a more complex world, its next chapter will look different. It’s not the sexiest argument. But utterly convincing.”

Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and former German Ambassador to the US

“With his usual clarity and insight, Joe Nye gives us a fascinating analysis of the complexities of power, exploring hard and soft power, state and non-state actors, and how to retain leadership once domination is over. European readers have much to learn from the US experience and its lessons for the evolution of the EU.”

Mario Monti, Prime Minister of Italy (2011–13) and President of Bocconi University