The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order by Fouskas, Vassilis K.

The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745326436)

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The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order by Fouskas, Vassilis K.

The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order

$35.95
The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order by Fouskas, Vassilis K.

The Fall of the Us Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war - accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade - and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book intervenes in the debates surrounding America's status as an empire. It analyses Immanuel Wallerstein and others who argue that the US is in decline, to those who maintain that it remains a robust superpower. By explaining how America's neo-imperial system of governance has been working since WWII, it links the US's domestic and foreign vulnerabilities. The Fall of the US Empire argues that the time has come to understand the US empire not by its power but by its systemic vulnerabilities of financialisation, resource depletion and environmental degradation.

Author: Vassilis K. Fouskas
ISBN-10: 0745326439
ISBN-13: 9780745326436
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2012
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.60d
By Vassilis K. Fouskas
By Vassilis K. Fouskas
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Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of Cyprus: The Post-Imperial Constitution (with Alex O. Tackie, Pluto, 2009), The New American Imperialism (with Bülent Gökay, 2005), The Politics of Conflict (editor, 2007, 2010) and Zones of Conflict (Pluto, 2003). He is an editor of globalfaultlines.com and a member of the editorial board of Debatte.

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of The Politics of Caspian Oil (2001), Eastern Europe Since 1970 (2005, 2006), Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991 (2006), Politics of Oil - A Survey (2007), and Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States (with Ben Fowkes, 2011). He is the founder of globalfaultlines.com.

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