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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.
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