The End of the American Era - U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twentieth-First Century

Charles A. Kupchan

Vintage Books

2003

391 páginas

13h 2m

ISBN-10: 0375726594

In "The End of the American Era", Charles A. Kupchan argues that America's position of global dominance is far less durable than commonly presumed. He contends that the next challenge to America's might comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. The waning of U.S. primacy will be expedited by the international tensions provoked by U.S. unilateralism, by America's own ambivalence about remaining the globe's guardian, and by impact of the digital age on the country's politics and its role in the world.
With a new preface that shows why the war in Iraq has only accelerated these trends, "The End of the American Era" deftly mines the lessons of history to cast light on the present and future, explaining how America and the world should prepare for the more complex and unstable road ahead.