Political and Legal
Not just American elites but the world, too, will need to adjust to the contraction of Washington's global role -- and Mandelbaum believes that this could lead to renewed great-power conflict as China, Russia, and other states compete to fill the vacuum.
Calleo argues that American foreign policy elites after the Cold War, instead of guiding the world to a stable system of balance, restraint, and shared leadership, quickly became enamored with the idea of "global hegemony."
This book is about the fragility of order and the struggle of statesmen to balance, restrain, and legitimate state power.
In this volume, the Heritage Foundation has assembled experts to assess the UN -- and the diagnosis is not good.
In this carefully argued treatise, Norrlof contends that despite a gradual decline in its relative economic size, the United States still possesses three critical features that give it "positional advantages" over all other states.
