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American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization

Author : William V. Spanos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479137
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization written by William V. Spanos and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers—Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien—whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to America's war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. To support this argument, Spanos undertakes close readings of Greene's The Quiet American, Caputo's A Rumor of War, and O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, all of which bear witness to the self-destruction of American exceptionalism. Spanos retrieves the spectral witness that has been suppressed since the war, but that now, in the wake of the quagmire in Iraq, has returned to haunt America's post-9/11 "project for the new American century."

Catching Up Or Leading the Way

Author : Yong Zhao
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416608737
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Catching Up Or Leading the Way written by Yong Zhao and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yong Zhao, a distinguished professor at Michigan State University who was born and raised in China, offers a compelling argument for what schools can--and must--do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology.

The Ages of Globalization

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550480
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Ages of Globalization written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.

American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama

Author : Stephen Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415636418
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama written by Stephen Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs? In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and society that are most crucial to an understanding of American exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship between the state and citizens, religion, socio-economic mobility, America's role in the world, and ideas about the Constitution. American exceptionalism matters in domestic politics chiefly as a political narrative around which support for and opposition to certain policies, values and vision of American society coalesce. But in world affairs it is not the story but the empirical reality of American exceptionalism that matters. Although the long era of America's global economic dominance has entered what might be called a period of diminished expectations, the United States remains exceptional--the indispensable nation--in world affairs and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

A New Foreign Policy

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547889
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A New Foreign Policy written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sobering analysis of American foreign policy under Trump, the award-winning economist calls for a new approach to international engagement. The American Century began in 1941 and ended in 2017, on the day of President Trump’s inauguration. The subsequent turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism did not made America great. It announced the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of environmental crises, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges. As a result, America no longer dominates geopolitics or the world economy as it once did. In this incisive and passionate book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

The Global Republic

Author : Frank Ninkovich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617333X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Global Republic written by Frank Ninkovich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This remarkably well-written analysis” of US foreign relations offers a provocative and compelling new interpretation of American Exceptionalism (Choice). For decades the United States has been the world’s predominant superpower. The country’s economic authority, forceful foreign policy, and leading position in international institutions are typically seen as the results of a long-standing, deliberate strategy. Furthermore, it has become widely accepted that American exceptionalism—the belief that America is a country like no other in history—has been at the root of the country’s political and military decisions. Pioneering historian Frank Ninkovich disagrees. In The Global Republic, Ninkovich argues that the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive the forces of globalization. He builds the powerful case that American foreign policy has long been entangled in questions of global engagement, while also showing that globalization itself has always been distinct from—and sometimes in direct conflict with—what we call international society.

American Exceptionalisms

Author : Sylvia Söderlind
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435762
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalisms written by Sylvia Söderlind and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive and wide ranging look at a powerful force and myth in American culture and history, American Exceptionalisms reveals the centuries-old persistence of the notion that the United States is an exceptional nation, in being both an example to the world and exempt from the rules of international law. Scholars from North America and Europe trace versions of the rhetoric of exceptionalism through a multitude of historical, cultural, and political phenomena, from John Winthrop's vision of the "cittie on a hill" and the Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century to The Blair Witch Project and Oprah Winfrey's "Child Predator Watch List" in the twenty-first century. The first set of essays focus on constitutive historical moments in the development of the myth, rom early exploration narratives through political debates in the early republic to twentieth-century immigration debates. The latter essays address the role of exceptionalism in the "war on terror" and such cornerstones of modern popular culture such as the horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the songs of Steve Earle, and the Oprah Winfrey show. Sylvia Söderlind is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Margin/Alias: Language and Colonization in Canadian and Québécois Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991) and articles on American, Canadian and Québécois fiction, "ghostmodernism" and translation, and the politics of metaphor published in, among others, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Ariel, Essays in Canadian Writing, Voix et images, RS/SI, New Feminism Review (Japan), ARTES (Sweden). James Taylor Carson is Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship focuses on the ethnohistory of native peoples in the American South, and he has published two books on the subject, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999) and Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007).

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

Author : Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498544452
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization written by Casey Ryan Kelly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines the growing popularity of food and travel television and its implications for how we understand the relationship between food, place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods, Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television, attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases global poverty, and contributes to myths of American exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of cultural difference and economic success.

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

Author : Godfrey Hodgson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300125702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of American Exceptionalism written by Godfrey Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and highly respected British commentator, argues that America is not as exceptional as it would like to think; its blindness to its own history has bred a complacent nationalism and a disastrous foreign policy that has isolated and alienated it from the global community. Tracing the development of America’s high self regard from the early days of the republic to the present era, Hodgson demonstrates how its exceptionalism has been systematically exaggerated and—in recent decades—corrupted. While there have been distinct and original elements in America’s history and political philosophy, notes Hodgson, these have always been more heavily influenced by European thought and experience than Americans have been willing to acknowledge. A stimulating and timely assessment of how America’s belief in its exceptionalism has led it astray, this book is mandatory reading for its citizens, admirers, and detractors.

The American Exception, Volume 1

Author : Frank J. Lechner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137587172
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The American Exception, Volume 1 written by Frank J. Lechner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book analyzes several focal points of exceptionalist thinking about America, including the importance of US Constitution and the American sense of mission, and explores several aspects of America’s distinctive global impact; for example, in economics and film. In addition to discussing the distinctive global impact of the US, this first volume delves into religion, law, and sports.

American Empire

Author : A. G. Hopkins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196877
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book American Empire written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.

Global America?

Author : Natan Sznaider
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386668
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Global America? written by Natan Sznaider and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

The Paradox of a Global USA

Author : Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767637
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of a Global USA written by Bruce Mazlish and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both central components of the process of globalization. On the other hand, it appears to be resolutely determined not to live within an institutional framework of globalized authority. As the world's only superpower, the United States is often perceived as championing its own narrow national sovereignty—for example, by opposing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and by taking action in Iraq outside the auspices of the UN. The book treats the paradox of American exceptionalism and globalization as a "local" happening within the broader process of globalization. These essays analyze the ways in which the USA has both played a role in, and reacted against, emerging present-day globalization. Examples are drawn from the fields of history, political science, cultural studies, and economics, making this collection one of the very few to link together so diverse a group of authors and approaches to the subject of global USA.

American Studies in a Moment of Danger

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639496
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book American Studies in a Moment of Danger written by George Lipsitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The America that seems to be disappearing before our very eyes is, George Lipsitz argues, actually the cumulative creation of yesterday's struggles over identity, culture, and power. At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead. Showing how American studies has been shaped by the social movements of the 1930s, 1960s, and 1980s, Lipsitz identifies the ways in which the globalization of commerce and culture are producing radically new understandings of politics, performance, consumption, knowledge, and nostalgia. Book jacket.

American Exceptionalism

Author : Ben Bansal
Publisher : Bansal Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781637605318
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism written by Ben Bansal and published by Bansal Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the US an exceptional nation in the history of the world? Is it unique, is it the strongest in history, is it immune from laws of history and is the global political economy it has fashioned and the culture it has spawned a role model for rest of the world? The book examines each assertion thoughtfully, not just from an ideological perspective but based on the evolution of US political economy over last nearly 250 years.Birth and expansion of capitalism spans the entire modern era beginning 1500 CE, and the entire US experience is confined to the modern era. Thus, to understand US experience, it is important to understand why historical capitalism came into existence, why it has always been global and why it has been associated with both territorial and non-territorial financial empires. Historical capitalism is simply global polarization of capital with wealth drain from other states as its principal mechanism. But it did not have to be that way since entrepreneurial freedom and individual liberties asserted in the US Constitution do not necessarily imply historical capitalism. US experience shows unmistakably that capitalism, without welfare state, without monetary and fiscal intervention and without wealth drain from other states displays debilitating economic instability and a worsening income and wealth polarization. But it has also produced incredible productivity gains. The book traces the economic history of US from its laissez faire founding to contemporary globalization and projects its future based on changes in wealth drain from other states to the US over next several decades. Book argues that communist China-centric globalization focused on offshoring of low-techgoods and services has been a strategic blunder of historic proportions that President Nixon's geo-political China policy set in motion. It has created a socialist dragon quite unlike the socialist Russian bear. The West fought and defeated the Russian bear with a protracted Cold War but funded the creation of an order of magnitude bigger dragon in China. It has led to persistent trade and budget deficits, mounting national debt, and a worsening income and wealth polarization. It has also led to financial bubbles in US equity markets. Today the US is a debtor nation and owes the world close to $10 trillion.The book warns that reversing globalization is tantamount to cutting your nose to spite your face for the US. It lays out how to optimize round two of contemporary globalization to peacefully evolve towards a future without wealth drain, ending a 500+ years long dark chapter in the history of civilization. It lays out necessary changes in domestic and global institutions to usher in a triumphant global capitalism that values entrepreneurship, individual freedoms and is genuinely democratic and equitable. Fortunately, this assessment gives the US and the world time to adjust.

The Great Convergence

Author : Kishore Mahbubani
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390334
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Great Convergence written by Kishore Mahbubani and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential policy thinker and "muse of the Asian Century" ("Foreign Policy") illuminates the contours of our new global civilization, and shows why power must shift to reflect the new reality.

American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam

Author : Trevor McCrisken
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403948178
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam written by Trevor McCrisken and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam examines the influence of the belief in American exceptionalism on the history of U.S. foreign policy since the Vietnam War. Trevor B. McCrisken analyzes attempts by each post-Vietnam U.S. administration to revive the popular belief in exceptionalism both rhetorically and by pursuing foreign policy supposedly grounded in traditional American principles. He argues that exceptionalism consistently provided the framework for foreign policy discourse but that the conduct of foreign affairs was limited by the Vietnam syndrome.