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Título: AGONIES OF EMPIRE. AMERICAN POWER FROM CLINTON TO BIDEN
Autor: COX, MICHAEL
Año: 2022
Género: ENSAYO
Formato: PDF

The defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the United States (U.S.) Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the U.S. republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of U.S. Citizens claims to be the 'indispensable nation' in world politics, it is clear that the next few years will be decisive ones for the U.S. But how did the U.S., which was riding high only 30 years ago, arrive at this critical point? And will it lead to the fall of what many would claim has been one of the most successful empires of modern times?

In this volume, Michael Cox, a leading scholar of U.S. foreign policy, outlines the ways in which five very different U.S. Presidents –Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden–have addressed the complex legacies left them by their predecessors while dealing with the longer-term problems of running an empire under increasing stress. In so doing, he sets out a framework for thinking critically about U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War without ever losing sight of the biggest question of all: Can the United States continue to shape world affairs or is it now facing Paul Kennedy's 1987 'long term decline' prediction?

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