The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas

by Steven Weber and Bruce W. Jentleson

Book Overview

Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy--the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy--have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China, or for anyone else.

Steven Weber and Bruce Jentleson are not declinists, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674058186
• ISBN13: 9780674058187
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"