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9780415690492: Debating a Post-American World: What Lies Ahead? (Security and Governance)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415690498 ISBN 13: 9780415690492
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

The United States is currently the linchpin of global trade, technology, and finance, and a military colossus, extending across the world with a network of bases and alliances. This book anticipates the possible issues raised by a transition between American dominance and the rise of alternative powers.

While a ‘post-American’ world need not be any different than that of today, the risk associated with such a change provides ample reason for attentive study. Divided into four parts, 50 international relations scholars explore and discuss:

    • Power Transitions: addressing issues including the rise of China; the passing of American primacy and the endurance of American leadership.

    • War and Peace: addressing nuclear weapons; the risk of war; security privatization and global insecurity

    • Global Governance: addressing competition, trade, the UN, sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, law and power.

    • Energy and the Environment: addressing resource conflict, petrol, climate change and technology.

This unique project offers a compilation of disparate arguments by scholars and policy practitioners, encompassing a plurality of disciplines and theoretical perspectives. By providing clarity and focus to this essential debate on the future of the world in the next several decades, Debating a Post-American World will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations and global politics, American politics, US Foreign policy and International Security.

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About the Author

    Sean Clark and Sabrina Hoque are PhD candidates in International Relations and Doctoral Fellows at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University.

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    Publisher
    Routledge
    Publication date
    2011
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0415690498
    ISBN 13 
    9780415690492
    Binding
    Hardcover
    Edition number
    1
    Number of pages
    344
    Editor
    Clark Sean, Hoque Sabrina