Strategic Impasse: Social Origins of Geopolitical Disarray

By Juan Corradi

"Damned if you do; damned if you don't" voices the strategic impasse the USA finds itself in today. Liberal interventionism and globalization-the two pillars of the international system-seem not to work. Explaining the inability of Western powers to enact wise initiatives, Corradi explores the de-coupling of political systems: we are connected with each other but disconnected from policy makers. The paradox of increased connectivity and collective disengagement sets a perverse dynamic between publics and elites, with a serious impact on world affairs. Corradi analyzes the social bases of present dilemmas and how incipient decline can be managed, and paralysis overcome.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138212571
• ISBN13: 9781138212572
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"