1st Edition
Alternatives The United States Confronts the World
By Immanuel Wallerstein
Copyright 2004
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Immanuel Wallerstein draws on a lifetime of study of long-term historical change to shed light in his newest book on the consequences of the recent, significant turn in U.S. foreign and economic policies. Alternatives shows how the U.S. has been in decline since the 1970s and how these longer trends dovetail with current Bush administration policies, which he describes as an attempt to reverse the... Read more
To the Reader PART I: Terrorism: The Bush Fiasco PART II: Bush Encounters the World: Commentaries, 2001-2004 PART III: The Possible and the Desirable Index About the Author
Biography
Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar at Yale University and author most recently of Decline of American Power (New Press, 2003), Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 1998); and After Liberalism (New Press, 1995).
"[A] most important and perceptive assessment of the political and economic future of the world. As always with Wallerstein's work, you do not have to agree with him to find him enormously thought-provoking."
--Goran Therborn, Director, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala
"More and more books on international relations are published every year. Only a few of them deserved to be remembered. Alternatives is one of those. It is a delight to have deep historical perspective used to explain recent events. ...Wallerstein shows that even in foreign affairs generosity, morality, cleverness, and realism are compatible."
--Pascal Boniface, Director of the Institute for International Relations and Strategy, Paris
