Another American Century: The United States and the World after 2000 (Global Issues) - Hardcover

Guyatt, Nicholas

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9781856497794: Another American Century: The United States and the World after 2000 (Global Issues)

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ISBN 10: 1856497798 ISBN 13: 9781856497794

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd, 2000

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* Will the United States dominate the 21st century? * How does the United States see its role in the coming years? * Can a single superpower make the world a safer and more just place in which to live? At the opening of the new century, the United States finds itself in an extraordinary position -- in economic, military, political and cultural terms, its actions exert a profound influence far beyond its borders. Another American Century? offers a roadmap to this new era of US pre-eminence, drawing on the experiences of the past decade to outline the effects and consequences of America's formidable power. In addition, this book looks at how US policymakers understand their role in the world, and the ideologies which enable them to pursue policies with often such disastrous consequences for people outside America. Another American Century? explores two questions: How does the US shape the rest of the world? And how does it persuade itself that its actions are just? If the 21st century is to be American, the answers will be of vital interest to everyone.

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'A powerful analysis [that] raises fresh, fundamental questions about an entire range of US foreign policies that have deep roots in the American economic and cultural experience.' - Walter LaFeber, Cornell University, author of Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism. 'Nicholas Guyatt has done us a great service. With this book he has given us a succinct, bold and penetrating critique of the triumphalist ideology which insists on American domination of this and the next century. Another American Century? is both sweeping in its argument and rich in the evidence it produces to show the dangers to us all in the idea that our country has the right to impose its will on the rest of the world.' - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States 'A cogent and incisive history of the present. Guyatt situates major debates about American foreign relations (the consequences of globalization, Washington and the United Nations, the role of the Pentagon after the Cold War, humanitarian interventions) in a concise but sweeping interpretive history going back to the Depression and World War II. In so doing he skewers a number of shallow and insubstantial foreign affairs pundits who may get a lot of media attention, but get few things right about the problems and perils of American foreign policy in a new century.' - Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago and author of The American Ascendancy (forthcoming)

Synopsis:

Will the 21st century be another American century? How does the USA see its role in the coming years? What will be the consequences for the rest of the world? These are some of the vital issues explored in this timely new book. As its author shows, the USA finds itself in a pre-eminently powerful position at the start of the new century - whether we think in economic, military, ideological or cultural terms. This book describes the ways in which the USA shapes the world in which we live. It shows how America has used its power to fashion international institutions -both economic ones like the World Trade Organisation or the IMF and political organizations like UN - in line with its own interests. It addresses the many ways in which American policymakers and commentators describe the role of the US. And it projects the current trends in American foreign policy into the future, and speculates on the effects of further American predominance in the first years of the new century. Behind the celebrations and the speeches marking the millennium, a fundamental question remains to be answered: will continued US domination of the international order make the world a safer place?

Given the conflicts and suffering of the past hundred years, the answer is crucial for all of us. This book is a part of a series of accessible "think piece" books, dealing with leading global issues of relevance to humanity today. In a special series format, short and economically priced, the titles are designed for both students and the thinking reader.

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