After the Empire
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After the Empire
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As America's global dominance evaporates, the author foresees a replacement by an emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world. He takes stock of many negative trends, including America's weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans.
After the Empire is a provocative and sobering look at America's changing role on the global stage. Emmanuel Todd uses demographic and economic factors to diagnose America's waning hegemony, offering a compelling reevaluation of its status as a superpower. Burdened by enormous domestic and foreign trade deficits, the declining value of the U.S. dollar, the unanticipated bankruptcy of several prominent companies, and the fact that it can no longer subsist on its own production, America is becoming ever more dependent on foreign money. And as it continues to anger foreign allies and enemies alike with its military and ideological policies, America is beginning to experience a resistance to its unilateralism. A critically acclaimed, international best-seller, After the Empire is an urgent appeal for America to return to its role as a democratic, productive, and cooperative member of the global community.
Widely reviewed and critically praised, Emmanuel Todd's After the Empire predicts that the United States is forfeiting its superpower status as it moves away from traditional democratic values of egalitarianism and universalism, lives far beyond its means economically, and continues to anger foreign allies and enemies alike with its military and ideological policies. As America's global dominance evaporates, Todd foresees the emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world.
Todd calmly and straightforwardly takes stock of many negative trends, including America's weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans, a bulimic economy that increasingly relies on smoke and mirrors and the goodwill of foreign investors, and a foreign policy that squanders the country's reserves of "soft power" while its militaristic arsonist-fireman behaviour is met with increasing resistance.
Written by a demographer and historian who foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, this original and daring book cannot be ignored.
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Critically acclaimed and widely reviewed, After the Empire has been hailed as an essential political work. Booklist compares its significance to Fukuyama's The End of History. Newsday praises Todd's analysis of global trends shaping a new world order. Philip Seib highlights its insight into global perspectives on the U.S., while Clare Short calls it a brave and truthful critique. John Du describes it as a politically engaged and compelling account of Americaโs rapid transformation from global dream to nightmare.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780231131032
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 September 2006
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Contributors:
- Translated by C. Jon Delogu
- Foreword by Michael Lind
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Emmanuel Todd is a researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere and The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics, and Culture. C. Jon Delogu is a full professor of English at the Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon III.Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics and, with Ted Halstead, The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.
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