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THE WORLD AMERICA MADE
By: Robert Kagan
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 countryβs 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 βpreemptive superpower suicide,β 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 Putinβs 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. Weβve seen this beforeβin 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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