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Knopf
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
160 pages
ISBN: 0307961311
EAN: 9780307961310
Kindle: B006OI1M36
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Non-Fiction
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its
role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies
on solving its problems at home? And is America really in
decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling
author and one of the country’s most influential strategic
thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world
might look like if the United States were truly to let its
influence wane. Although Kagan asserts that much of the current pessimism is
misplaced, he warns that if America were indeed to commit
“preemptive superpower suicide,” the world would see the
return of war among rising nations as they jostle for power;
the retreat of democracy around the world as Vladimir
Putin’s Russia and authoritarian China acquire more clout;
and the weakening of the global free-market economy, which
the United States created and has supported for more than
sixty years. We’ve seen this before—in the breakdown of the
Roman Empire and the collapse of the European order in World
War I. Potent, incisive, and engaging, The World America
Made is a reminder that the American world order is
worth preserving, and America dare not decline.
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