Coping with Geopolitical Decline : The United States in European Perspective.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Coping with Geopolitical Decline -- 1 What Is Decline? -- Part One The European Experience -- 2 The Culture of Decline in Later Byzantium -- 3 Defeat and Decline: Understanding Military Failure in Victorian Britain and in America after Vietnam and Iraq -- 4 Decline in Denial: France since 1945 -- 5 Resisting Decline: Russia, the West, and Eurasia -- Part Two Coping with American Decline -- 6 American Decline and Performative War, or How to Do Things with Force -- 7 Adjusting to Rise and Coping with Decline: The China-US Relationship in Historical and Theoretical Context -- 8 American Decline, Liberal Hegemony, and the Transformation of World Politics -- Conclusion European Lessons for America -- Contributors -- Index.

As the US challenges the liberal international order, fights back China's ascendency, and reconsiders its traditional alliances, this book analyses key lessons from Europe's experience and provides comparative insight into the likely dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the 21st century.

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