Basic Books
February 2012
On Sale: January 24, 2012
224 pages ISBN: 046502954X EAN: 9780465029549 Kindle: B006ZOYM9K Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerableβto domestic and international decline and unregulated greed.
Speaking from decades of experience, Brzezinski considers the implications of the changing distribution of global power, ponders why Americaβs global appeal is waning, speculates on the likely geopolitical consequences if America declines by 2025 (will China assume Americaβs central role in world affairs?), and describes a vision of a resurgent America: responsive to challenges, strategically deliberate, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East.
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