Lament for America : : Decline of the Superpower, Plan for Renewal / / Earl H. Fry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fry, Earl H. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)

Lament for America explores the major challenges to the status of the United States as a world superpower. In delving into the fundamental question of whether or not a relative decline is inevitable, the author recognizes that the changes faced over the next few decades will be more rapid and transf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1. No Superpower Is Too Big to Fail
• Chapter 2. Beltway Follies
• Chapter 3. Domestic Fault Lines: Indebtedness and Inequities
• Chapter 4. Domestic Fault Lines: The Comfort Zone of Mediocrity
• Chapter 5. An Unsustainable U.S. Foreign Policy
• Chapter 6. The First Major External Challenge to America's Superpower Status: The Rise of Competitor Nations
• Chapter 7. An Emerging External Threat to America's Superpower Status: The Combination of Globalization, Technology Change, and Creative Destruction
• Chapter 8. America's Strengths and a Plan for Renewal
• Chapter 9. The United States in 2050
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index