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Autore |
Serfaty Simon |
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Titolo |
A world recast [[electronic resource] ] : an American moment in a post-Western order / / Simon Serfaty |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4422-1589-5 |
9786613941503 |
1-283-62905-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geopolitics - United States |
World politics - 21st century |
Civilization, Western - 21st century |
United States Foreign relations 21st century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1. A POST-WESTERN MOMENT; Chapter 2. RECASTING THE GLOBAL SYSTEM; Chapter 3. SIGHTS OF POWER; Chapter 4. A LONE SUPERPOWER; Chapter 5. CHOOSING ALLIES; Chapter 6. NO TIME FOR A TIME OUT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this powerful and provocative book, distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the United States and the rest of the West, relative to China and the rest of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment of zero-polarity will be messy, involving a dozen or more other countries. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during this moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains |
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