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America and the World After Bush
Putnam
February 2009
On Sale: February 5, 2009
496 pages
ISBN: 0399155376
EAN: 9780399155376
Hardcover
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The author of the groundbreaking New York Times
bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map brings us a
remarkable analysis of the post-Bush world, and America’s
leadership role in it.
In civilian and military
circles alike, The Pentagon’s New Map became one of
the most talked about books of 2004. “A combination of Tom
Friedman on globalization and Carl von Clausewitz on war,
[it is] the red-hot book among the nation’s admirals and
generals,” wrote David Ignatius in The Washington
Post. Barnett’s second book, Blueprint for
Action, demonstrated how to put the first book’s
principles to work. Now, in Great Powers, Barnett
delivers his most sweeping— and important—book of
all.
For eight years, the current administration has
done much to disconnect or alienate America from the world,
but the world has certainly not been standing still. Now,
with a chance to start over, what do we do? Where’s the
world going now, and how do we not only rejoin it but become
a leader again in what has become the most profound
reordering of the globe since the end of World War
II?
In Great Powers, Barnett offers a tour de
force analysis of the grand realignments that are both
already here and coming up fast in the spheres of economics,
diplomacy, defense, technology, security, the environment,
and much more. The “great powers” are no longer just the
world’s major nation-states but the powerful forces, past,
present, and future, moving with us and past us like a
freight train. It is not a simple matter of a course
correction but of a complete recalibration, and the
opportunities it presents are far greater than the perils.
Barnett gives us a fundamental understanding of both,
showing us not only how the world is now but how it will
be.
There are those writing now who say America is
in decline . . . and we just have to deal with it. Barnett
says no. Globalization as it exists today was built by
America—and now it’s time for America to shape and redefine
what comes next. Great Powers shows us how.
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