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

By Steven Weber , Bruce W. Jentleson

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0674058186, 9780674058187
LCC
HD5706 .W39 2010
Open Library ID
OL24411512M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
679 kB (695595 bytes)
Pages
225\225
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 they argue that the United States must take a different stance toward the rest of the world in this, the twenty-first century. Now that we can’t dominate others, we must rely on strategy, making trade-offs and focusing our efforts. And they do not mean military strategy, such as “the global war on terror.” Rather, we must compete in the global marketplace of ideas—with state-directed capitalism, with charismatic authoritarian leaders, with jihadism. In politics, ideas and influence are now critical currency. At the core of our efforts must be a new conception of the world order based on mutuality, and of a just society that inspires and embraces people around the world. (20100903)

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