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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815153103321

Autore

Serfaty Simon

Titolo

A world recast : an American moment in a post-Western order / / Simon Serfaty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012

ISBN

1-4422-1589-5

9786613941503

1-283-62905-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

327.73009/05

Soggetti

Geopolitics - United States

World politics - 21st century

Civilization, Western - 21st century

United States Foreign relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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