Is the American Century Over?

Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power back in 1991.

It was a something of a response to Paul Kennedy's immensely popular 1987 book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000.

In the end it was Nye, not Kennedy, who turned out to be the more prescient analyst, although he probably didn't make as much money.

So now here comes Nye with a new book on America's enduring hegemony, Is the American Century Over? 


Take a look at some of the material at the sample pages at the link. Gideon Rachman has a review at the Financial Times, "‘Is the American Century Over?’, by Joseph Nye."

I need to pick up a copy as material for my World Politics course. Maybe next month. I just got a shipment of books in the mail yesterday, heh.