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Author: Naoki Sakai Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478022213 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.
Author: Naoki Sakai Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478022213 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.
Author: Oswald Spengler Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195066340 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 500
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Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
Author: Charles Kupchan Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307428516 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 418
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Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America’s might is fast emerging. It comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. Decades of strategic partnership across the Atlantic are giving way to renewed geopolitical competition. The waning of U.S. primacy will be expedited by America’s own ambivalence about remaining the globe’s guardian and by the impact of the digital age on the country’s politics and its role in the world. By deftly mining the lessons of history to cast light on the present and future, Kupchan explains how America and the world should prepare for the more complex, more unstable road ahead.
Author: Grant Morrison Publisher: DC ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 46
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As the assassination of the U.S. president leads to political intrigue, interpersonal drama, and astrophysical wonder, the truth behind the crime and those involved will blow your mind! Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely investigate the conspiracy on Earth-4!
Author: Leonid Savin Publisher: Black House Publishing ISBN: 9781912759361 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 470
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In Ordo Pluriversalis, Leonid Savin, provides some possible Non-Western alternatives in international relationships brought about by the rise of China as a superpower, and a new world order where US hegemony no longer exists. Savin rethinks the foundations of statehood, including religion, the economy, the world outlook of peoples, the themes of security and sovereignty, nationalism and civilisations. An assessment of the current crisis of neoliberalism and globalism from the perspective of possible alternative multipolar scenarios. Ordo Pluriversalis, is intended for a wide range of readers, students of political science, historians, cultural scientists, and experts in international relations. Leonid Savin is a member of the Military Scientific Society at the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and member of the steering committee of the Islamabad International Counter-Terrorism Forum. He is the author of a number of books, scientific publications and special studies on the topic of international relations, political philosophy, geopolitics and international conflict.
Author: James Macdonald Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374229635 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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Combines political, economic, and military history to offer an account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century, and raises important questions about the future.
Author: Peter Clarke Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1596917423 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.
Author: Kurt Baumeister Publisher: ISBN: 9780998433943 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 380
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2034: Evangelical secret agents, fast food moguls, the voice of God in computer software, violence in the Bermuda Triangle! George W. Bush's foreign policy vindicated by a quick victory in Iraq, lucrative invasions of Egypt and Syria followed, bringing unparalleled prosperity to America and setting off thirty years of right-wing rule. But when a war in Iran goes bad--and the resulting cover-up goes worse--the democrats reclaim the presidency. This is the time of Pax Americana and its zealous anti-hero, government agent Tuck Squires. Reading the ironic silences between the lines of the thriller, and roaring like a jet engine, Pax Americana is a sacrilegious, conspiratorial monster; like a literary dogfight between Martin Amis and Robert Anton Wilson, loaded with prophecy, Baumeister's debut is an exorcism and an antidote for our era. 'Like an episode of Archer written by Kurt Vonnegut, Baumeister takes us into a hilarious and high-velocity world of espionage and global politics in this send-up of god, country, and the possibility of doing good in a world gone bad. It's fast-paced fun, watch out for paper cuts as the pages fly by.' -Shya Scanlon 'If there is to be an American peace, it's certainly not going to come on the pages of this lit match of a novel. Kurt Baumeister has fashioned exactly the old school pre- and post-Bond techno x-travaganza everyone bored with explorations of the louvre has been waiting for. Pax Americana is both dark satire and deeply satisfying, an adrenaline rush that runs through suspect politics, spirituality software, and the sacredly profane. It's a blast. Buy it now.' -Sean Beaudoin
Author: Stuart Ward Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526147416 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 460
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This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself. At a time when trace-elements of Greater Britain have resurfaced in British politics, animating the febrile polemics of Brexit, these essays offer a sober historical perspective. More than perhaps at any other time since the empire’s precipitate demise, it is imperative to gain a fresh purchase on the global challenges to British identities in the twentieth century.
Author: Ronald Steel Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
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"KIRKUS REVIEW : In a first book, The End of Alliance: America and the Future of Europe, the author, a young writer on international affairs, wrote an important popular study of the withering away of the Atlantic strategy of the United States and the disruption of NATO out of old age. In the present study, the author widens his investigation of the Kennedy-Johnson foreign policies and comes out of this intelligent and well-reasoned work with a general condemnation of the globalistic urge of recent American presidents to create a Pax America unrelated to this nation's resources or long-term interests. The villains of this intensely polemical work are all men of good will who, in varying degrees, suffer from what D. W. Brogan has called the ""illusion of American omnipotence."" The consequences of their amateurism have increased the world's insecurity and augmented the danger of crisis situations, natural to a world of 140 nation-states, boiling over the brim of diplomacy into the unknown. The way out is to doff the messianic sense of mission and detail Chinese and Soviet imperialism rather than communist ideology as the task to be dealt with, at the same time realizing that nationalism is a more reliable defense against expansionism than anti-communism."--www.kirkusreviews.com.
Author: Naoki Sakai
Author: Naoki Sakai
Author: Oswald Spengler
Author: Charles Kupchan
Author: Grant Morrison
Author: Leonid Savin
Author: James Macdonald
Author: Peter Clarke
Author: Kurt Baumeister
Author: Stuart Ward
Author: Ronald Steel