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Follies of Power : America's Unipolar Fantasy by David P. Calleo (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521767679
ISBN-139780521767675
eBay Product ID (ePID)71167599
Product Key Features
Number of Pages188 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFollies of Power : America's Unipolar Fantasy
Publication Year2009
SubjectHistory & Theory, International Relations / General, American Government / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorDavid P. Calleo
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-043036
Reviews"With rare courage, insight and breadth of vision, David Calleo dissects the megalomaniac US national illusions that led the Bush administration to disaster but also endangers that of Obama. His vitally important work calls not for a tactical shift in US foreign policy but for a completely new way of looking at the world." Anatol Lieven, King's College London and the New America Foundation, "David Calleo is one of our wisest commentators in international affairs. In Follies of Power he offers, just in time for a new American administration, a provocative new approach to American foreign policy, one that draws on his deep knowledge of American, European, and global history." Michael Mandelbaum, author, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government, "The book is a wide-ranging tour de force that covers geopolitical analysis, international economics, political theory, and global politics. The footnotes constitute a virtual bibliography on recent and contemporary international relations...For advanced students of international relations." CHOICE, J.P. Dunn, Converse College, "Once in a rare while a book arrives that cuts through the confusions and deceptions of a foreign policy gone dangerously awry. This is that book." Ronald Steel, Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal327.73
Table Of ContentPart I. Geopolitical Illusions and their Consequences: 1. The unipolar fantasy; 2. Hubris in the Middle East; 3. The broken West; Part II. The Nature and Limits of American Power: 4. Assessing America's soft and hard power; 5. Feeding American power: the economic base; 6. Power and legitimacy among Western states; Part III. World Order in the New Century: 7. American and European models.
SynopsisThe imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book look at the disastrous consequences of the vision at work - in the Middle East and in Europe. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 assess the limits of American power. Chapter 7 discusses the problems of order and coexistence in a world that is not unipolar but increasingly plural. It speculates on the possible contributions and likely fate of both 'Old America' and 'New Europe' as models for organizing the future. America's own constitutional equilibrium, David Calleo argues, increasingly requires friendly balancing from Europe. Both sides of the West must liberate their imaginations from past triumphs to face their responsibilities to the new world and to each other., The book discusses the dangers of the 'unipolar view' of world politics. It notes the damage caused by this view in action in the Middle East and Europe, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of American power and contrasts the federal systems of 'Old America' and 'New Europe' as models for governing today's increasingly plural system., The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book look at the disastrous consequences of the vision at work - in the Middle East and in Europe. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 assess the limits of American power - soft military, economic, and moral. Chapter 7 discusses the problems of order and coexistence in a world that is not unipolar but increasingly plural. It speculates on the possible contributions and likely fate of both "Old America" and "New Europe" as models for organizing the future. America's own constitutional equilibrium, David Calleo argues, increasingly requires friendly balancing from Europe. Both sides of the West must liberate their imaginations from past triumphs to face their responsibilities to the new world and to each other.
LC Classification NumberJZ1312.C35 2009
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