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  • Published: 7 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9780449012918
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

The World America Made





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.

  • Published: 7 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9780449012918
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

About the author

Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan is the Senior Fellow at Washington think tank Brookings; a contributing columnist at The Washington Post; and the author of several NYT bestsellers including The World America Made (Knopf, 2012), Return of History and the End of Dreams (Knopf, 2008), Dangerous Nation (Knopf 2006). Politico Magazine named Kagan one of the 'Politico 50' in 2016. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and holds a doctorate in American history from American University.

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