American Exceptionalism In The Age Of Globalization
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American Exceptionalism In The Age Of Globalization
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Author : William V. Spanos
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2008-01-24
American Exceptionalism In The Age Of Globalization written by William V. Spanos and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers—Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien—whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to America's war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. To support this argument, Spanos undertakes close readings of Greene's The Quiet American, Caputo's A Rumor of War, and O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, all of which bear witness to the self-destruction of American exceptionalism. Spanos retrieves the spectral witness that has been suppressed since the war, but that now, in the wake of the quagmire in Iraq, has returned to haunt America's post-9/11 "project for the new American century."
The Global Republic
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Author : Frank Ninkovich
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-09-23
The Global Republic written by Frank Ninkovich and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with History categories.
“This remarkably well-written analysis” of US foreign relations offers a provocative and compelling new interpretation of American Exceptionalism (Choice). For decades the United States has been the world’s predominant superpower. The country’s economic authority, forceful foreign policy, and leading position in international institutions are typically seen as the results of a long-standing, deliberate strategy. Furthermore, it has become widely accepted that American exceptionalism—the belief that America is a country like no other in history—has been at the root of the country’s political and military decisions. Pioneering historian Frank Ninkovich disagrees. In The Global Republic, Ninkovich argues that the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive the forces of globalization. He builds the powerful case that American foreign policy has long been entangled in questions of global engagement, while also showing that globalization itself has always been distinct from—and sometimes in direct conflict with—what we call international society.
American Exceptionalism In The Age Of Obama
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Author : Stephen Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
American Exceptionalism In The Age Of Obama written by Stephen Brooks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Exceptionalism categories.
The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs? In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and society that are most crucial to an understanding of American exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship between the state and citizens, religion, socio-economic mobility, America's role in the world, and ideas about the Constitution. American exceptionalism matters in domestic politics chiefly as a political narrative around which support for and opposition to certain policies, values and vision of American society coalesce. But in world affairs it is not the story but the empirical reality of American exceptionalism that matters. Although the long era of America's global economic dominance has entered what might be called a period of diminished expectations, the United States remains exceptional--the indispensable nation--in world affairs and is likely to remain so for many years to come.
American Exceptionalism
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Author : Lall Ramrattan
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-02-19
American Exceptionalism written by Lall Ramrattan and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Business & Economics categories.
The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for some a “dismal science” following Thomas Carlyle’s characterization of Malthus’ demographic model, it has increasingly become the “queen of the social sciences” for more practitioners. The book fills a gap in the literature by describing the American contributors as precursors and genuinely exceptional economists. We present their works within the state of the nation in which they advance their discipline. One is treated to both qualitative and quantitative theories in the opening chapter. Budding theories that became established theories of Economics and Finance are investigated in Chapters II and III. When President John Adams was confronted with M. Turgot’s criticisms of the American government, he resorted to a historic survey of types of government from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages. Similarly, we have included a final chapter, Chapter IV, to present the argument for American Exceptionalism in the domain of Political Economy and Economic Law over the ages.
A New Foreign Policy
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Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-02
A New Foreign Policy written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Political Science categories.
In this sobering analysis of American foreign policy under Trump, the award-winning economist calls for a new approach to international engagement. The American Century began in 1941 and ended in 2017, on the day of President Trump’s inauguration. The subsequent turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism did not made America great. It announced the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of environmental crises, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges. As a result, America no longer dominates geopolitics or the world economy as it once did. In this incisive and passionate book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.
The Ages Of Globalization
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Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02
The Ages Of Globalization written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Political Science categories.
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.
American Empire
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Author : A. G. Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-20
American Empire written by A. G. Hopkins and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with History categories.
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar trajectories throughout this long period, and how America’s dependency on Britain and Europe extended much later into the nineteenth century than previously understood. In a sweeping narrative spanning three centuries, Hopkins describes how the revolt of the mainland colonies was the product of a crisis that afflicted the imperial states of Europe generally, and how the history of the American republic between 1783 and 1865 was a response not to the termination of British influence but to its continued expansion. He traces how the creation of a U.S. industrial nation-state after the Civil War paralleled developments in Western Europe, fostered similar destabilizing influences, and found an outlet in imperialism through the acquisition of an insular empire in the Caribbean and Pacific. The period of colonial rule that followed reflected the history of the European empires in its ideological justifications, economic relations, and administrative principles. After 1945, a profound shift in the character of globalization brought the age of the great territorial empires to an end. American Empire goes beyond the myth of American exceptionalism to place the United States within the wider context of the global historical forces that shaped the Western empires and the world.
American Exceptionalism
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Author : Ben Bansal
language : en
Publisher: Bansal Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-14
American Exceptionalism written by Ben Bansal and has been published by Bansal Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-14 with categories.
Is the US an exceptional nation in the history of the world? Is it unique, is it the strongest in history, is it immune from laws of history and is the global political economy it has fashioned and the culture it has spawned a role model for rest of the world? The book examines each assertion thoughtfully, not just from an ideological perspective but based on the evolution of US political economy over last nearly 250 years.Birth and expansion of capitalism spans the entire modern era beginning 1500 CE, and the entire US experience is confined to the modern era. Thus, to understand US experience, it is important to understand why historical capitalism came into existence, why it has always been global and why it has been associated with both territorial and non-territorial financial empires. Historical capitalism is simply global polarization of capital with wealth drain from other states as its principal mechanism. But it did not have to be that way since entrepreneurial freedom and individual liberties asserted in the US Constitution do not necessarily imply historical capitalism. US experience shows unmistakably that capitalism, without welfare state, without monetary and fiscal intervention and without wealth drain from other states displays debilitating economic instability and a worsening income and wealth polarization. But it has also produced incredible productivity gains. The book traces the economic history of US from its laissez faire founding to contemporary globalization and projects its future based on changes in wealth drain from other states to the US over next several decades. Book argues that communist China-centric globalization focused on offshoring of low-techgoods and services has been a strategic blunder of historic proportions that President Nixon's geo-political China policy set in motion. It has created a socialist dragon quite unlike the socialist Russian bear. The West fought and defeated the Russian bear with a protracted Cold War but funded the creation of an order of magnitude bigger dragon in China. It has led to persistent trade and budget deficits, mounting national debt, and a worsening income and wealth polarization. It has also led to financial bubbles in US equity markets. Today the US is a debtor nation and owes the world close to $10 trillion.The book warns that reversing globalization is tantamount to cutting your nose to spite your face for the US. It lays out how to optimize round two of contemporary globalization to peacefully evolve towards a future without wealth drain, ending a 500+ years long dark chapter in the history of civilization. It lays out necessary changes in domestic and global institutions to usher in a triumphant global capitalism that values entrepreneurship, individual freedoms and is genuinely democratic and equitable. Fortunately, this assessment gives the US and the world time to adjust.
American Exceptionalisms
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Author : Sylvia Söderlind
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2011-12-16
American Exceptionalisms written by Sylvia Söderlind and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-16 with History categories.
An incisive and wide ranging look at a powerful force and myth in American culture and history, American Exceptionalisms reveals the centuries-old persistence of the notion that the United States is an exceptional nation, in being both an example to the world and exempt from the rules of international law. Scholars from North America and Europe trace versions of the rhetoric of exceptionalism through a multitude of historical, cultural, and political phenomena, from John Winthrop's vision of the "cittie on a hill" and the Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century to The Blair Witch Project and Oprah Winfrey's "Child Predator Watch List" in the twenty-first century. The first set of essays focus on constitutive historical moments in the development of the myth, rom early exploration narratives through political debates in the early republic to twentieth-century immigration debates. The latter essays address the role of exceptionalism in the "war on terror" and such cornerstones of modern popular culture such as the horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the songs of Steve Earle, and the Oprah Winfrey show. Sylvia Söderlind is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Margin/Alias: Language and Colonization in Canadian and Québécois Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991) and articles on American, Canadian and Québécois fiction, "ghostmodernism" and translation, and the politics of metaphor published in, among others, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Ariel, Essays in Canadian Writing, Voix et images, RS/SI, New Feminism Review (Japan), ARTES (Sweden). James Taylor Carson is Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship focuses on the ethnohistory of native peoples in the American South, and he has published two books on the subject, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999) and Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007).
Food Television And Otherness In The Age Of Globalization
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Author : Casey Ryan Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-02-09
Food Television And Otherness In The Age Of Globalization written by Casey Ryan Kelly and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines the growing popularity of food and travel television and its implications for how we understand the relationship between food, place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods, Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television, attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases global poverty, and contributes to myths of American exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of cultural difference and economic success.