In the shadows of the American century : the rise and decline of US global power / Alfred W. McCoy.
McCoy, Alfred W., author.
2017
JZ1312 .M336 2017
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Title
In the shadows of the American century : the rise and decline of US global power / Alfred W. McCoy.
Author
McCoy, Alfred W., author.
ISBN
9781608467747 (e-book)
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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JZ1312 .M336 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.73
Summary
The award-winning historian delivers a "brilliant and deeply informed" analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America's rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America's attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction. US global power and me
Part I. Understanding the US empire
Ch. 1. The world island and the rise of America
Ch. 2. "Our S.O.B.s" : America and the autocrats
Ch. 3. Covert netherworld
Part II. US strategies for survival.
Ch. 4. A global surveillance state
Ch. 5. Torture and the eclipse of empires
Ch. 6. Beyond bayonets and battleships : the Pentagon's wonder weapons
Part III. Dynamics of US decline
Ch. 7. Grandmasters of the great game
Ch. 8. Five scenarios for the end of the American century.

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