{"product_id":"9781565847996","title":"The Decline of American Power","description":"Author: Immanuel Wallerstein\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781565847996\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Press, The\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Aug 2003\u003cbr\u003ePages: 324 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this \"lucid, informed, and insightful\" account (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: America is now in a position of unprecedented global supremacy. But in fact, Immanuel Wallerstein argues, a more nuanced evaluation of recent history reveals that America has been fading as a global power since the end of the Vietnam War, and its response to the terrorist attacks of 9\/11 looks certain to hasten that decline. In this provocative collection, the visionary originator of world-systems analysis and the most innovative social scientist of his generation turns a practiced analytical eye to the turbulent beginnings of the twenty-first century. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals, and the state of the left wing, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyed-and troubling-assessment of the crumbling international order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Wallerstein's thought] provides a new framework for the subject of European history... it is compelling, a new explanation, a new classification, indeed a revolutionary one, of received knowledge and current thought.\" -Fernand Braudel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920590880926,"sku":"ING-9781565847996","price":40.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781565847996.jpg?v=1782825196","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781565847996","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}