Immanuel Wallerstein

The Decline of American Power (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times). The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control. The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: America is now in a position of unprecedented global supremacy. But in fact, Immanuel Wallerstein argues, a more nuanced evaluation of recent history reveals that America has been fading as a global power since the end of the Vietnam War, and its response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 looks certain to hasten that decline. In this provocative collection, the visionary originator of world-systems analysis and the most innovative social scientist of his generation turns a practiced analytical eye to the turbulent beginnings of the twenty-first century. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals, and the state of the left wing, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyed-and troubling-assessment of the crumbling international order. "[Wallerstein's thought] provides a new framework for the subject of European history... it is compelling, a new explanation, a new classification, indeed a revolutionary one, of received knowledge and current thought." -Fernand Braudel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595587251
• Artikelnr.: 49970461

Autorenporträt

Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department of sociology at Yale University and director emeritus of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical Capitalism. The New Press has published After Liberalism, The Decline of American Power, and a collection of his works, The Essential Wallerstein. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France.