1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910894082903321

Titolo

Boletim ABIA / Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rio de Janeiro, RJ, : ABIA, Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS, Observatório Nacional de Políticas de AIDS, [1988?]-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

LATAM

Disciplina

610

320

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Portoghese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 28.03.2017

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954009403321

Autore

Brooks Stephen <1956-, >

Titolo

American exceptionalism in the age of Obama / / Stephen Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-08516-7

1-283-87166-1

1-136-19623-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in American politics and governance ; ; no. 4

Disciplina

973.932

Soggetti

National characteristics, American

Exceptionalism - United States

United States Foreign relations Philosophy

United States Politics and government Philosophy

United States Politics and government 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 (p. [137]-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Figure and Table Sources; Preface; 1. Bush, Obama, and the Reemergence of an Old Question; 2. State and Society in America; 3. Religion and American Society; 4. America's Role in the World; 5. Constitutional Exceptionalism; 6. The American Dream; 7. Still Exceptional, But Does It Matter?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs?In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and society that are most crucial to an understanding of American exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship between the stat