The State of the American Empire: How the USA Shapes the World

ISBN-13: 9781844074280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 136 str.

Stephen Burman

Opis

Traces the USA's attempts to balance national interest and global responsibility. This title provides a measure of America's true effect on world trade and security, locates sites of resistance and levels of antagonism, and considers the sustainability of its imperial role.

Recenzje

'I applaud this long-awaited atlas. I have been looking for one that would graphically represent some of the major impacts of the US presence in world order. This does a terrific job.' Stephen Gill, York University, Canada

Spis treści

Introduction Energy Trade Capital People Military Security Soft Power Ideas The Future Index

O autorze

Stephen Burman is Dean of Humanities at the University of Sussex, UK. His books include America in the Modern World: The Transcendence of US Hegemony and The Black Progress Question: Explaining the African-American Predicament, which received a Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding work in the field of human rights.