The American Century?: In Retrospect and Prospect - Couverture rigide

Rabel, Roberto

 
9780275976729: The American Century?: In Retrospect and Prospect
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275976726 ISBN 13 : 9780275976729
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Few would dispute that the United States had been the world's most influential nation since Henry Luce first popularized the notion of an American Century in 1941. The significance of the influence, however, remains a subject of hot debate. This collection brings together international scholars who offer differing views on American international dominance in the past century and the prospects for its continuation into this one. These range from positive assessments of the role of the United States in forging a global community and in operating as a relatively benign global hegemon to a scathing critique of Washington policy makers for failing to reverse the ethically corrosive impact of the Cold War on American diplomatic practice.

American global influence has not been synonymous with omnipotence. The United States is not impervious to external influences and has itself been transformed by the forces of globalization—a phenomenon viewed by some as synonymous with Americanization. These essays highlight the notion that the phrase American Century implies the diffusion internationally of liberal capitalist principles. This book suggests that the role of the United States in diffusing those principles is at the heart of the debate about the significance of American global influence, whether in retrospect or in prospect. Includes the views of Asian, Antipodean, and American Scholars.

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À propos de l?auteur

ROBERTO RABEL is Academic Director, International Development, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of Between East and West: Trieste, the United States and the Cold War, 1941-1954 (1988).

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275976726
ISBN 13 
9780275976729
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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