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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.1
EAN: 9780307269232
ISBN: 030726923X
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Sales Rank: 9846
Studio: Knopf
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Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics. Finally, radical Islamists are waging a violent struggle against the modern secular cultures and powers that, in their view, have dominated, penetrated, and polluted their Islamic world. The grand expectation that after the Cold War the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong.
For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them.
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Rating: - A late awakening
Robert Kagan's Return of History has been appropriately named by the author. There is nothing new in this book except skillful writing. Much of these forewarnings in respect of liberal democratic capitalism has been known to foreign policy experts like Huntington, Paul kennedy, etc long ago.
The crux of the matter is not so much to highlight these issues as to look for the causes leading to post cold war developments and disturbances. My book Tracing the Eagle's Orbit does this. Many ... Read More
Rating:  - The Return of History
A most disappointing read. I expected much more in depth analysis and found mostly what I read in headlines of various publications. The worst part is that the writer fails to put the pieces together in any way that leads to possible answers for the future. I'd been led to believe that Kagan had powerful insights into where we are and where our options may lead -- instead I found little more than high school level geopolitical history. Don't waste my time.
Rating:  - Superb insight
Well laid out sequel to "Paradise and power".All the more intriguing since it was written before the Russian invasion of Georgia--ominiously predictable from the pages of Kagan's book.Let's hope his transatlantic call to action is heeded.
Rating: - Geopolitical realism from 30,000 feet up
Robert Kagan takes us up, up and away to view relations between nations of the earth from economic, military, cultural and political perspectives. He hews to the "great powers" view of national relations -- in which large nations strive to maximize their influence on their neighbors. He views Europe and America as assuming they are moving toward a post-modern, post-nationalist global economy in which economic interrelatedness trumps the need for war. Meanwhile, Russia, China and Japan each vie for ... Read More
Rating: - accurate and up to date
the book gives the reader an easily read up to date review of world politics since the demise of the soviet union as it relates to the course of world togetherness versus nationalism and regional competition among world powers which include the usa,russia,china japan,india and japan. countries whichare governed as democracies or autocracies.
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