America in retreat : the decline of US leadership from WW2 to COVID-19. --

Londres, Inglaterra : One World, c2021.

324 p. ; 24 cm.

9781786079879

Incluye notas bibliográficas (Pp. 259-308) e índice.

Part 1. Origins. -- 1. Exceptionalism: myth & reality. -- 2. Ideology: cold war. -- Part 2. Outcomes. -- 3. Compromise: coups & interventions. -- 4. Criticism: warnings from within. -- Part 3. Consequences. -- 5. Militarism: dominance & overmatch. -- 6. Unilateralism: America first. -- Part 4. The future. -- 7. Asia first: a changing world. -- 8. Shifting alliances: looking east. --

Tomado de Amazon: "In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of international co-operation seemed to have begun. But seventy-five years later, its influence has already diminished. The world has now entered a post-American era, argues Michael Pembroke, defined by a flourishing Asia and the ascendancy of China, as much as by the decline of the United States. This book is a short history of that decline; how high standards and treasured principles were ignored; how idealism was replaced by hubris and moral compromise; and how adherence to the rule of law became selective. It is also a look into the future – a future dominated by greater Asia and China in particular. We are in the midst of the third great power shift in modern history – from Europe to America to Asia. Covering wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, and a retreat from international engagement with the UN, WHO and, increasingly, trade agreements, Pembroke sketches the history of America’s retreat from universal principles to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the dangers of American exceptionalism." --