The Downfall of the American Order? Katzenstein Kirshner Hardback 9781501762970

The Downfall of the American Order?Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein, Jonathan Kirshner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501762970, 978-1501762970\nSynopsis\nThe Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world. \n\n For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designedan order designed to avoid the horrors of previous eras, including, most poignantly, two world wars and the Great Depression.\n\n But all things must pass. The global financial crisis of 2008, the legacy of two long, losing wars, and the polarizing and tumultuous presidency of Donald Trump all suggest that global affairs have reached a turning point. The implications of this are profound. \n\n The coe