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Beschreibung

Nuanced contemporary history from a surprisingly optimistic viewpoint

The current global order appears to be collapsing. Long-forgotten challenges, such as the return of great power competition and the spectre of nuclear war, combined with novel, complex, and menacing planetary crises ranging from climate and disease to emerging technologies, threaten instability and chaos. Meanwhile, the most consequential nation in the international system, the United States, behaves erratically, seemingly willing to abandon its decades-long strategy of building strong alliances, countering authoritarianism and supporting openness, and remaining deeply engaged in the world.

Wonder and Worry is a collection of Francis J. Gavin's writing over the past decade on questions like: What is the state of world politics and the international system? What has been and should be America's role in the
global order?

And what is the most effective way to evaluate and generate insight for the first two questions? Gavin's answers are often nuanced,
counterintuitive, and surprisingly optimistic. Written in a more engaging, conversational style than most scholarly treatments, Wonder and Worry is an accessible contemporary history for our uncertain age.

Nuanced contemporary history from a surprisingly optimistic viewpoint

The current global order appears to be collapsing. Long-forgotten challenges, such as the return of great power competition and the spectre of nuclear war, combined with novel, complex, and menacing planetary crises ranging from climate and disease to emerging technologies, threaten instability and chaos. Meanwhile, the most consequential nation in the international system, the United States, behaves erratically, seemingly willing to abandon its decades-long strategy of building strong alliances, countering authoritarianism and supporting openness, and remaining deeply engaged in the world.

Wonder and Worry is a collection of Francis J. Gavin's writing over the past decade on questions like: What is the state of world politics and the international system? What has been and should be America's role in the
global order?

And what is the most effective way to evaluate and generate insight for the first two questions? Gavin's answers are often nuanced,
counterintuitive, and surprisingly optimistic. Written in a more engaging, conversational style than most scholarly treatments, Wonder and Worry is an accessible contemporary history for our uncertain age.

Über den Autor

Francis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Henry A Kissinger Centre for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Gavin is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations and Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9789190021019
ISBN-10: 9190021010
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gavin, Francis J
Hersteller: Stolpe Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 247 x 176 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Francis J Gavin
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,942 kg
Artikel-ID: 134638629

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