American Power After the Financial Crisis

by Jonathan Kirshner

Book Overview

The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics. The crisis, Kirshner argues, brought about an end to what he identifies as the "second postwar American order" because it undermined the legitimacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450993
• ISBN13: 9780801450990
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher