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The Return of Great Power Rivalry - Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China (Paperback)
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The Return of Great Power Rivalry - Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China (Paperback)
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This book provides an innovative way of thinking about power in
international politics and provides an optimistic assessment about
the future of American global leadership. The United States of
America has been the most powerful country in the world for over
seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strategy
declared that the return of great power competition with Russia and
China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security. Further,
many analysts predict that America's autocratic rivals will have at
least some success in disrupting-and, in the longer term, possibly
even displacing-U.S. global leadership. Brilliant and engagingly
written, The Return of Great Power Rivalry argues that this
conventional wisdom is wrong. Drawing on an extraordinary range of
historical evidence and the works of figures like Herodotus,
Machiavelli, and Montesquieu and combining it with cutting-edge
social science research, Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting
argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries.
He contends that democracies actually have unique economic,
diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical
competitions. He considers autocratic advantages as well, but shows
that these are more than outweighed by their
vulnerabilities.Kroenig then shows these arguments through the
seven most important cases of democratic-versus-autocratic
rivalries throughout history, from the ancient world to the Cold
War. Finally, he analyzes the new era of great power rivalry among
the United States, Russia, and China through the lens of the
democratic advantage argument. By advancing a "hard-power" argument
for democracy, Kroenig demonstrates that despite its many problems,
the U.S. is better positioned to maintain a global leadership role
than either Russia or China. A vitally important book for anyone
concerned about the future of global geopolitics, The Return of
Great Power Rivalry provides both an innovative way of thinking
about power in international politics and an optimistic assessment
of the future of American global leadership.
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