Thomas L. Friedman

Michael Mandelbaum

This book makes recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption. America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In this book the authors analyze those challenges, globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption, and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess. They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the U.S. political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. This work is both a searching exploration ofthe American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.

How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

That Used to Be Us

"In Mission Failure, Mandelbaum argues that, in the past 25 years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a significant shift. Historically, U.S. foreign policy was oriented primarily toward threat reduction, but the U.S. military has turned in recent years to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political. Mandelbaum argues that ideologically-driven foreign policy--that which seeks to reconstruct societies along Western lines--generally leads to mission failure"--

America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

Mission Failure

Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower, 1765-2015

Four Ages of American Foreign Policy

In Wat is ermismet Amerika? geven de auteurs hun visie op vier dilemmas de globalisering, de revolutie in de informatietechnologie,het chronische financieringstekort en het torenhoge energieverbruik die van grote invloed zijn op de toekomst van Amerika,maar die desondanks door niemand lijken te worden aangepakt. Amerika kan er volgens hen weer bovenop komen. De oplossingen liggen in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, mits die juist geïnterpreteerd wordt. De verlamming van het politieke bestel en de vervaging van typisch Amerikaanse normen hebben een goede aanpak verhinderd. Wat Amerika nodig heeft, hoeft niet van ver te komen, hoeft niet nieuw te zijn. Er zijn waarden, prioriteiten en gebruiken nodig die zijn verankerd in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en cultuur en die het land keer op keer hebben voortgestuwd. Volgens de auteurs zou de oplossing kunnen liggen in harder studeren,meer sparen, minder uitgeven en verstandig investeren. Het boek is zowel een grondige verkenning van het huidige Amerika als een prikkelend manifest voor de schepping van een nieuw Amerika.

Wat is er mis met Amerika?

Expanding the powerful argument he makes with Thomas Friedman in their bestselling That Used to Be Us, Michael Mandelbaum describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, one of expanding wealth and vast opportunity. The terrifying financial meltdown of 2008, the continuing danger faced by Europe’s common currency, and the dramatically reduced growth of China, India, and other emerging nations: These factors have called into question the future of globalization. Will it continue? And can it keep benefitting the world’s 7 billion people? In The Road to Global Prosperity, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America’s leading authorities on international affairs, examines the obstacles and concludes that globalization is an irreversible and positive force in the world of the twenty-first century. As technology and free markets expand and national leaders realize that their power depends on delivering prosperity to their citizens, countries will cooperate more and fight less. As more nations connect, the size of the economic pie expands. And even as immigration increases, more money crosses borders, and previously weak nations rise, individuals and societies will grow richer. Mandelbaum provides the most comprehensive understanding of globalization’s future in the wake of the economic shocks of the last five years, the most illuminating examination of the crucial political issues that will determine the future, and the most persuasive case for optimism about the world economy.

The Road to Global Prosperity

With the end of the cold war, Europe is more united and freer from the danger of a major war than at any time in modern history. An historically unprecedented and highly desirable European security order is in place. The Dawn of Peace in Europe describes this new "common security order," assesses the alternatives to it, and analyzes the conditions necessary for its continuation.Mandelbaum begins by exploring three possible futures for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: retaining the status quo, retaining its current membership but expanding its mission to include operations such as the one in Bosnia, and retaining its original mission but expanding its membership to include some countries in Central Europe. He finds that perpetuating the status quo is necessary, that Bosnia-style "out of area" operations may be desirable but are not feasible, and that expansion is feasible but not desirable. He then shows how the arms limitation agreements of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in conjunction with the political changes of 1989 and 1991, have created the new common security order.The future of this new order depends on Russia and the United States. Mandelbaum assesses how the wrenching transition taking place within Russia might affect its policies toward the arms treaties and toward its neighbors. Finally, he evaluates the durability of the American commitment to an active role in Europe.

The Dawn of Peace in Europe

In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, Michael Mandelbaum examines the peaceful quarter century after the end of the Cold War. He describes how the period came about and why it ended, arguing that individual countries overturned peaceful, political, and military arrangements in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, thereby affecting the rest of the world. He also probes prospects for the revival of peace in the future and stresses the importance of democracy and civil liberties across borders.

The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth

With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, its fifteen constituent republics suddenly found themselves sovereign states. Among the new countries are the five republics of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan - that comprise the region to the south of the great Russian heartland. Each of these countries now faces the task of creating its own foreign policy: with one another, with its former imperial ruler to the north, with the Islamic countries to the south, and with the West. In Central Asia and the World, eight experts on the region address the historic power struggles between east and west and north and south that have shaped the region and the prognosis for success in overcoming a turbulent past and an uncertain, divided present. In addition to its continuing strong ties to Russia, Central-Asia's links with its southern neighbors and the potential role of Islam are also examined. The authors advance the case that these countries are critical to the West insofar as they affect Western interests in Russia and the Middle East. The ongoing civil war in Tajikistan and Central Asia's relationship with China are also addressed. The first book to examine the complex issues facing the region Central Asia and the World provides a comprehensive overview of the developing foreign policies of these five new countries, including a look at the internal political, economic, and military issues confronting each country.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan

Central Asia and the World

The Soviet Approach to Arms Control

The Other Side of the Table

Thomas Friedman

Giới Thiệu Tác giả mở đầu cuốn sách bằng bối cảnh Thiên Tân, Trung Quốc và bắt đầu so sánh với nước Mỹ. Friedman và Mandelbaum vẽ ra một hình ảnh Trung Quốc phát triển vượt bậc, trở thành một đối thủ đe dọa nghiêm trọng vị thế của nước Mỹ, trong khi đó, nước Mỹ ngày càng lạc hậu, thụt lùi nhưng vẫn dương dương tự đắc về vị trí số một của mình. Quyển sách là một phiên bản đen tối hơn nhiều của Thế giới phẳng. Nước Mỹ đang thất thế, bởi nó không còn đánh giá cao giáo dục đúng mức, bởi các phương tiện truyền thông không còn muốn đối mặt với những sự thật tàn nhẫn, bởi quá nhiều công nhân, nhà quản lý và tổng giám đốc điều hành coi công việc và những gì họ được hưởng là mặc nhiên, bởi giới chính trị thiển cận, và còn nhiều lý do khác. Tuy nhiên, hai tác giả cũng tự mô tả mình là “những người lạc quan nản chí” và đưa ra nhiều ví dụ về những trường học xoay xở để lật ngược tình thế, những nhà chính trị nhận thức được sự điên rồ của nền chính trị Mỹ. Các tác giả cố gắng tự lạc quan và làm cho độc giả lạc quan về tương lai của nước Mỹ. Họ hy vọng cuốn sách như một sự cảnh báo, một lời hiệu triệu người Mỹ đoàn kết, hy sinh cá nhân để giúp nước Mỹ tìm lại vị thế cũ. Sách vẫn giữ được văn phong đơn giản, dễ hiểu, dễ đọc của Thomas Friedman; nhiều ví dụ sinh động tạo sự hấp dẫn; cách dẫn dắt logic làm tăng sức thuyết phục.

Nước Mỹ tụt hậu ngay trong thế giới mình tạo ra như thế nào và làm sao để quay trở lại

Từng là bá chủ

How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern. Mandelbaum explains how this role came about despite the fact that neither the United States nor any other country sought to establish it. He describes the contributions that American power makes to global security and prosperity, the shortcomings of American foreign policy, and how other countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's global role. And he assesses the prospects for the continuation of this role, which depends most importantly on whether the American public is willing to pay for it. Written with Mandelbaum's characteristic blend of clarity, wit, and profound understanding of America and the world, The Case for Goliath offers a fresh and surprising approach to an issue that obsesses citizens and policymakers the world over, as well as a major statement on the foreign policy issues confronting the American people today.

How America Acts as the World's Government in the

The Case for Goliath

Strobe Talbott

Robert G. Kaiser

Mihail Sergeevič Gorbačev

The Soviet Pretense. Etc.) [Publ. by The] Council on Foreign Relations

Reykjavik and Beyond. - (Robert G. Kaiser

This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the 1990s: post-communist Eurasia.

Four Perspectives

Postcommunism

The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most remarkable developments in history: the rapid rise of democracy around the world. In 1900, only ten countries were democracies and by 1975 there were only 30. Today, 119 of the world's 190 countries have adopted this form of government, and it is by far the most celebrated and prestigious one. How did democracy acquire its good name? Why did it spread so far and so fast? Why do important countries remain undemocratic? And why do efforts to export democracy so often fail and even make conditions worse? In Democracy's Good Name, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, answers these questions. He surveys the methods and risks of promoting democracy, and analyzes the prospects for the establishment of democratic governments in Russia, China, and the Arab world. Written in Mandelbaum's clear and accessible style, Democracy's Good Name presents a lucid, comprehensive, and surprising account of the history and future of democracy from the American Revolution to the occupation of Iraq.

The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government

Democracy's Good Name

Professor of Political Science Michael Mandelbaum

New interpretations of historic episodes in international relations result from a fresh analysis of national security policies and the demands and constraints imposed upon their development by the international system.

The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The Fate of Nations

In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball became national institutions and how they reached their present forms; and covers the evolution of rules, the rise and fall of the most successful teams, and the historical significance of the most famous and influential figures such as Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, and Michael Jordan. Whether he is writing about baseball as the agrarian game, football as similar to warfare, basketball as the embodiment of post-industrial society, or the moral havoc created by baseball's designated hitter rule, Mandelbaum applies the full force of his learning and wit to subjects about which so many Americans care passionately: the games they played in their youth and continue to follow as adults. By offering a fresh and unconventional perspective on these games, The Meaning of Sports makes for fascinating and rewarding reading both for fans and newcomers.

The Meaning Of Sports

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have--for the first time in history--no serious rivals. And although the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were terrible and traumatic, they did not "change everything," as so many commentators have asserted. Instead, these events served to illuminate even more brightly the world that emerged from the end of the Cold War. In The Ideas That Conquered the World, Michael Mandelbaum describes the uneven spread (over the past two centuries) of peace, democracy, and free markets from the wealthy and powerful countries of the world's core, where they originated, to the weaker and poorer countries of its periphery. And he assesses the prospects for these ideas in the years to come, giving particular attention to the United States, which bears the greatest responsibility for protecting and promoting them, and to Russia, China, and the Middle East, in which they are not well established and where their fate will affect the rest of the world. Drawing on history, politics, and economics, this incisive book provides a clear and original guide to the main trends of the twenty-first century, from globalization to terrorism, through the perspective of one of our era's most provocative thinkers.

Michael Mandelbaum

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