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America wields a combination of military, economic and culturalpower that many consider unprecedented. The way America uses thispower has repercussions on every major issue of world affairs,including the prospects of regional security, the spread ofdemocratic governance, and the provision of global public goods ineconomic and environmental domains.
This volume explores the questions raised by American power from avariety of perspectives. Is the emphasis laid on military powerlikely to be self-defeating for the United States in the long run?Is "soft power" or persuasion a more effective way
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Produktbeschreibung
America wields a combination of military, economic and culturalpower that many consider unprecedented. The way America uses thispower has repercussions on every major issue of world affairs,including the prospects of regional security, the spread ofdemocratic governance, and the provision of global public goods ineconomic and environmental domains.

This volume explores the questions raised by American power from avariety of perspectives. Is the emphasis laid on military powerlikely to be self-defeating for the United States in the long run?Is "soft power" or persuasion a more effective way to promoteAmerican interests and goals? How is American predominanceperceived in Europe, China and the Arab world? Will it last or willother powers coalesce to resist US hegemony? The authors addressthese and other fundamental questions in rigorous and historicallysensitive analyses of this critical juncture in globalpolitics.

The book will be of great interest to students and scholars inpolitical science and international relations, as well as all thoseconcerned with and by one of the key topics of our time.

Contributors include: Robert Cooper, Michael Cox, Zhiyuan Cui,Abdelwahab El-Affendi, G. John Ikenberry, Robert Kagan, MaryKaldor, Joseph S. Nye, Thomas Risse.
Autorenporträt
David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Lecturer in Global Politics, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science