Is There Hope for Uncle Sam? Beyond the American Bubble By: Jan Nederveen Pieterse Publisher: Zed Books, Limited Print ISBN: 9781848130234, 1848130236 eText ISBN: 9781848133617, 1848133618 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 31.95 USD SKU: 9781848133617 For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it’s possible for America to chart a different course. Nederveen Pieterse argues that correcting the course of decline would mean taking drastic steps. Only a reinvention of New Deal politics could address social inequality, whilst repositioning itself in world politics would mean adopting genuine multilateralism. In the current ‘American bubble’ however, political and corporate unaccountability are so entrenched, and the constants of policy – support for Wall Street, the Pentagon and Israel – are so widely accepted by powerful elites that change is unlikely to come from within. Is there Hope for Uncle Sam? is a clear and provocative look at one of the big questions facing us in this century. Additional ISBNs 9781848130227, 1848130228 SKU: 9781848130234 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Is-There-Hope-for-Uncle-Sam
