Follies of Power

ISBN-13: 9780521767675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 188 str.

David P. Calleo

Opis

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."

Recenzje

'… a compelling critique …' The International Spectator

Spis treści

Part 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.