Whither the US empire? Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In this accessible, punchy text, Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay intervene in the debates that surround the US's status as an Empire. They survey the arguments amongst Marxist and critical scholars, from Immanuel Wallerstein and others who argue that the US is in decline, to those who maintain that it remains a robust...