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, [...]
From a leading scholar of this country's foreign policy comes the brilliant essay about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circles--now expanded into book form.[...]
This title argues that the interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply. It makes clear how Europe's need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of beliefs about conflict while at the same time the US has become the guarantor of the European order by dint of its might.[...]
Hopes for a peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities. Great powers (US, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India and Iran) are once again competing for geopolitical influence. This book poses the questions that face the democratic world.[...]