Mearshimer blurbs this. just out from Cornell Univ. Press. Along w/ Bacevich'es, "American Empire, "
(read the first chapter at the book store. Positive note is made of William A. Williams. Bacevich is writing for the new magazine of Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative. Williams is examined in Kevin Mattson's new book on New Left intellectuals and "radical liberalism" http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02148-9.html)
and Charles A. Kupchan http://www.cfr.org/bio.php?id=68 , "The End of the American Era, " two books just out getting positive reviews, I'll give y'all a report after the SF State library gets them in. Michael Pugliese
AMERICA UNRIVALED The Future of the Balance of Power
G. John Ikenberry (Editor) American power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No other nation has enjoyed such formidable advantages in military, economic, technological, cultural, and political capabilities. How stable is this unipolar American order? Will the age-old dynamic of the balance of power reemerge as the other great powers rise up to challenge American preeminence? America Unrivaled examines these questions. The experts in this volume contend that full- scale balancing in this new world order has not yet occurred. They ask if a backlash against American dominance is just around the corner, or if characteristics of the current situation alter or eliminate the entire logic of power balancing.
American power poses threats, as do the likely responses to that power, the experts argue in America Unrivaled. The definition of these threats is critical to understanding future political trends and learning whether an original (and stable) world system has already come into existence. Most of the contributors agree that novel features of the American hegemony and the wider global order make an automatic return to a traditional balance of power order unlikely.
G. John Ikenberry, Georgetown University Josef Joffe, Die Zeit and Harvard University Charles A. Kupchan, Georgetown University Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College John M. Owen IV, University of Virginia Thomas Risse, Free University of Berlin Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University Kenneth N. Waltz, University of California, Berkeley William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
G. John Ikenberry is Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University. Among his previous books are After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government, the latter from Cornell.
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs