The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat (45 page)

  
1.
Gideon Rachman,
Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011); Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum,
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Edward Luce,
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012); Robert J. Lieber,
Power and Willpower in the American Future
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

  
2.
Roger C. Altman and Richard N. Haass, “American Profligacy and American Power: The Consequences of Fiscal Irresponsibility,”
Foreign Affairs
, November/December 2010,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66778/roger-c-altman-and-richard-n-haass/american-profligacy-and-american-power
. Brzezinski argues that restoring America’s position in the world must start with putting its economic house in order. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
(New York: Basic Books, 2012), pp. 37–74.

  
3.
Fareed Zakaria,
The Post-American World, Release 2.0
(New York: Norton, 2011); Charles A. Kupchan,
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

  
4.
Joseph Nye,
The Future of Power
(New York: Public Affairs, 2011).

  
5.
Leslie H. Gelb provides an instructive examination of this issue in
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
(New York: Harper, 2009).

  
6.
Robert Kagan, “Not Fade Away: The Myth of American Decline,”
New Republic
, January 11, 2012,
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism
.

  
7.
“Fact Sheet: ‘A Moment of Opportunity’ in the Middle East and North Africa,” press release, May 19, 2011,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/fact-sheet-moment-opportunity-middle-east-and-north-africa
.

  
8.
Hassan Bin Talal, “U.S. Can’t Abandon the Middle East,”
Los Angeles
Times
, April 17, 2012,
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/17/opinion/la-oe-hassan-middle-east-engagement-20120417
.

  
9.
Vali Nasr,
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
(New York: Free Press, 2009), pp. 252–63.

10.
Brzezinski,
Strategic Vision
, p. 190.

11.
G. John Ikenberry,
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).

12.
Robert O. Keohane, “Hegemony and After,”
Foreign Affairs
, July/August 2012,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137690/robert-o-keohane/hegemony-and-after
.

13.
G. John Ikenberry, “The Future of the Liberal World Order,”
Foreign Affairs
, May/June 2011,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67730/g-john-ikenberry/the-future-of-the-liberal-world-order
.

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