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Lament for America : Decline of the Superpower, Plan for Renewal / Earl H. Fry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442601918
  • 9781442603523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.93
LOC classification:
  • JK275.F79 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. No Superpower Is Too Big to Fail -- Chapter 2. Beltway Follies -- Chapter 3. Domestic Fault Lines: Indebtedness and Inequities -- Chapter 4. Domestic Fault Lines: The Comfort Zone of Mediocrity -- Chapter 5. An Unsustainable U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 6. The First Major External Challenge to America’s Superpower Status: The Rise of Competitor Nations -- Chapter 7. An Emerging External Threat to America’s Superpower Status: The Combination of Globalization, Technology Change, and Creative Destruction -- Chapter 8. America’s Strengths and a Plan for Renewal -- Chapter 9. The United States in 2050 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Lament for America explores the major challenges to the status of the United States as a world superpower. In delving into the fundamental question of whether or not a relative decline is inevitable, the author recognizes that the changes faced over the next few decades will be more rapid and transformational than at any other period in American history. Lament for America offers concrete recommendations for renewal in areas such as defense policy, health care, education, and the environment, and serves as a useful guide to understanding how decisions will shape both the U.S. and global landscapes.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. No Superpower Is Too Big to Fail -- Chapter 2. Beltway Follies -- Chapter 3. Domestic Fault Lines: Indebtedness and Inequities -- Chapter 4. Domestic Fault Lines: The Comfort Zone of Mediocrity -- Chapter 5. An Unsustainable U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 6. The First Major External Challenge to America’s Superpower Status: The Rise of Competitor Nations -- Chapter 7. An Emerging External Threat to America’s Superpower Status: The Combination of Globalization, Technology Change, and Creative Destruction -- Chapter 8. America’s Strengths and a Plan for Renewal -- Chapter 9. The United States in 2050 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Lament for America explores the major challenges to the status of the United States as a world superpower. In delving into the fundamental question of whether or not a relative decline is inevitable, the author recognizes that the changes faced over the next few decades will be more rapid and transformational than at any other period in American history. Lament for America offers concrete recommendations for renewal in areas such as defense policy, health care, education, and the environment, and serves as a useful guide to understanding how decisions will shape both the U.S. and global landscapes.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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