United States History - 20th Century - General & Miscellaneous, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, World Politics, Diplomacy & International Relations, U.S. International Relations, Landscape & Environment - Social Aspects
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Overview
Is America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Department official takes issue with Paul Kennedy and others and clearly demonstrates that the United States is still the dominant world power, with no challenger in sight. But analogies about decline only divert policy makers from creating effective strategies for the future, says Nye. The nature of power has changed. The real-and unprecedented-challenge is managing the transition to growing global interdependence.An antidote to the pessimistic views about America, this book argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century.
Editorials
Library Journal
Nye, an eminent scholar of international relations and author of Nuclear Ethics ( LJ 5/1/86), joins the debate on the decline of American power with a blend of contemporary policy analysis and academic theory accessible to the informed general reader. He first explores the very concepts of power and decline before analyzing America's position relative to major competitors and our nation's outlook for the future. Nye concludes that the United States never enjoyed the degree of hegemony some now fear to be waning and, contrary to Paul Kennedy's hypothesis in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (LJ 12/87), that the United States will remain the dominant actor of the world scene if it adapts to the new power realities of an increasingly interdependent world. Highly recommended.-- James R. Kuhlman, Univ. of Georgia Lib., AthensBook Details
Published
May 25, 1990
Publisher
New York : Basic Books, c1990.
Pages
192
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780465007431