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Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent
scholars of international relations and current history, many of
them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The essays
explore the question of decline from several perspectives:
theoretical, historical, counterfactual, and contemporary. Thomas
Row's essay uses alternative history to show how an unfallen
Habsburg Empire might have evolved into a state system resembling
the European Union. Benjamin Rowland's essay on Oswald Spengler
considers how the German historian's theory of decline could be
applied to the West today. Several of the essays are country
studies. Not all conclude that countries or state systems are in
decline, or that the condition, if present, is irreversible.
Writing about Germany, Stephen Szabo notes that only fifteen years
ago, this currently robust country could have been seen as a clear
exemplar of decline. Dana Allin's essay on the U.S. asks whether a
course change, including retrenchment and overseas rebalancing,
might reverse decline or eliminate it altogether. David Calleo's
essay, among other things, looks at America's reserve currency
status as a principal sustainer of American exceptionalism, and
asks what might happen should the U.S. lose its "exorbitant
privilege" as reserve currency provider to the international
system.
Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent
scholars of international relations and current history, many of
them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The essays
explore the question of decline from several perspectives:
theoretical, historical, counterfactual, and contemporary. Thomas
Row's essay uses alternative history to show how an unfallen
Habsburg Empire might have evolved into a state system resembling
the European Union. Benjamin Rowland's essay on Oswald Spengler
considers how the German historian's theory of decline could be
applied to the West today. Several of the essays are country
studies. Not all conclude that countries or state systems are in
decline, or that the condition, if present, is irreversible.
Writing about Germany, Stephen Szabo notes that only fifteen years
ago, this currently robust country could have been seen as a clear
exemplar of decline. Dana Allin's essay on the U.S. asks whether a
course change, including retrenchment and overseas rebalancing,
might reverse decline or eliminate it altogether. David Calleo's
essay, among other things, looks at America's reserve currency
status as a principal sustainer of American exceptionalism, and
asks what might happen should the U.S. lose its "exorbitant
privilege" as reserve currency provider to the international
system.
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional
European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving
consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not
everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor,
obviously, was everything beyond criticism in his own time.
Nonetheless, a main finding, in the words of one essayist, is that
de Gaulle had an 'uncanny sense of where history was going' and the
skill to position his country accordingly. De Gaulle also stands as
a testament to the power of individuals in history, a somewhat
unfashionable viewpoint in modern university curriculums. Today,
when France's destiny appears increasingly to depend on structures
and institutions beyond its national control, including a Europe
weakened by the sovereign debt crisis, and a global economic system
accountable to no one, it seems timely to reconsider the record of
the twentieth century's greatest Frenchman, whose skill at dealing
with the problems of his time can inspire today's generation of
politicians and statesmen.
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional
European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving
consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not
everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor,
obviously, was everything beyond criticism in his own time.
Nonetheless, a main finding, in the words of one essayist, is that
de Gaulle had an 'uncanny sense of where history was going' and the
skill to position his country accordingly. De Gaulle also stands as
a testament to the power of individuals in history, a somewhat
unfashionable viewpoint in modern university curriculums. Today,
when France's destiny appears increasingly to depend on structures
and institutions beyond its national control, including a Europe
weakened by the sovereign debt crisis, and a global economic system
accountable to no one, it seems timely to reconsider the record of
the twentieth century's greatest Frenchman, whose skill at dealing
with the problems of his time can inspire today's generation of
politicians and statesmen.
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