Power and Willpower in the American Future Why the United States Is not Destined to Decline

Name: Power and Willpower in the American Future Why the United States Is not Destined to Decline
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ISBN: 9780521281270

ISBN-10: 052128127X

ISBN-13: 9780521281270

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert J. Lieber

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Marie Smyth, University of Ulster, is Chief Executive of the Institute for Conflict Research.



Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Purpose


Primacy Past and Present


Responses to Decline


Information, Socialization, and National Identity


"Will versus Wallet" in the American Future



Domestic and Global Interactions: Economics, Energy, and American Power


Financial Crises in Perspective


Competitiveness and Crisis Response


The Perils of Oil Import Dependence


Power and Domestic Capacity



American Attitudes and Institutions


Public Attitudes


Domestic Doctrine and Policy


Domestic Capacity


Challenges and Challengers



Threats to Persistent Primacy and the Rise of Others


Elusive Dangers: Volatility in Threat Assessment


Thinking about Threats


The Rise of Others


The Rise of China


Tangible Threats and Shifts in the International Distribution of Power


Twenty-First-Century Realities



Stretch or "Imperial Overstretch"?


Military Costs and Capabilities


Problems of Collective Action: Allies and Burden Sharing


Limits of Global Governance


Unipolarity and Apolarity


Commitments and Political Sustainability



Power and Willpower in the American Future


Is This Time Different?


America's Edge


Ideas, Beliefs, and Policies


What Is to Be Done at Home


What Is to Be Done Abroad


Why the Declinists Are Wrong Again


Index