Josef Joffe

Myth of America's Decline

Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies

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America-bashing predates America: French Enlightenment philosophies claimed that the colony was doomed and one critic reported that the colony's population was astonishingly idiotic [and] enervated. As the United States became a superpower after the Second World War, a more virulent, politically charged form of declinism emerged amid hysteria that the Russians are coming. It was followed by the European miracle, Japan's Rising Sun and now the looming Chinese behemoth. While declinism may delight the media and gloating Europeans eager to play up America's has-been status, the facts do not corroborate the contentions, as Josef Joffe demonstrate… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-87140-846-4
EAN: 9780871408464
Produktnummer: 15900286
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 352 S.

Über den Autor

Publisher-editor of Die Zeit and the author of Überpower, Josef Joffe was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University. A frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, he is a founding board member of the American Interest. He is a Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.