Abstract
In order to attempt to understand the current international politics of the USA, and its future prospects, in relation to four themes – the questions of ‘relative decline’, the character of the USA itself as a modern state, the meaning (in historical terms) of the Cold War and its end, and the significance of the ‘New World Order’ – the approach used here is both historical and theoretical. It is historical in that it relies on an empirical historical understanding for its basis, and theoretical both in that it seeks to refine the technique of ‘trend analysis’ in order to address the more prospective questions raised by these issues, and in attempting to redress the current tendency to over-emphasise economic and military factors as opposed to the role of culture in international affairs.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
The Fall of the American Empire?
10. D. Foeken, ‘Explanation for the partition of sub-Saharan Africa 1880–1900’, Tijschtift veer Economische en Social Geografie, 73, (1982), (pp. 138–148); N. Mansergh, The Coming of the First World War: A Study in the European Balance 1878–1914, (London, 1949); A. P. Thornton, Imperialism in the Twentieth Century, (London, 1978).
76. Susan Strange, ‘The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony’, International Organisation, (41)4, (1987), (pp. 551–74), and Casino Capitalism, (London, 1986), pp. 22–3.
81. Joseph S. Nye, Bound to Lead, and ‘What New World Order?’, Foreign Affairs, 71, (1992), (pp. 83–96), and ‘No, the US isn’t in Decline’, New York Times, 30 October 1990, p. 33. For a review of Nye’s arguments, see Paul Kennedy, ‘Fin de siècle America’, New York Review of Books, 28 June 1990, p. 32.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1996 K. R. Dark with A. L. Harris
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Dark, K.R., Harris, A.L. (1996). The Fall of the American Empire?. In: The New World and the New World Order. University of Reading European and International Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379428_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379428_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-39625-2
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-37942-8
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)