The end of arrogance : America in the global competition of ideas / Steven Weber, Bruce W. Jentleson.
Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy---the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy---have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or other...
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| Summary: | Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy---the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy---have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China, or for anyone else. -- Steven Weber and Bruce Jentleson are not declinists, but they argue that the United States must take a different stance toward the rest of the world in this, the twenty-first century. Now that we can't dominate others, we must rely on strategy, making trade-offs and focusing our efforts. And they do not mean military strategy, such as "the global war on terror." Rather, we must compete in the global marketplace of ideas---with state-directed capitalism, with charismatic authoritarian leaders, with jihadism. In politics, ideas and influence are now critical currency. -- At the core of our efforts must be a new conception of the world order based on mutuality, and of a just society that inspires and embraces people around the world. --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 210 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674058187 (alk. paper) 0674058186 (alk. paper) |