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For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it’s possible for America to chart a different course.
Nederveen Pieterse argues that correcting the course of decline would mean taking drastic steps. Only a reinvention of New Deal politics could address social inequality, whilst repositioning itself in world politics would mean adopting genuine multilateralism. In the current ‘American bubble’ however, political and corporate unaccountability are so entrenched, and the constants of policy – support for Wall Street, the Pentagon and Israel – are so widely accepted by powerful elites that change is unlikely to come from within.
Is there Hope for Uncle Sam? is a clear and provocative look at one of the big questions facing us in this century.
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About the Author
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His previous publications include Ethnicities and Global Multiculture (2007) and Globalization and Empire (2004). He has previously edited two Zed books, Global Futures and The Decolonization of Imagination.
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'Jan Nederveen Pieterse brilliantly and engagingly depicts America's failing approach to global policy, and what might be done by way of correction. This lucid analysis deserves the widest possible readership and debate.' Richard Falk, Princeton University
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1848130228
- ISBN 13 9781848130227
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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