[Peace] Is there hope for Uncle Sam? Book launch 3 Nov, 4 pm, Illini Unionbookstore

[Lisa Chason]

Is there hope for Uncle Sam?

Book launch

Monday 3 November, 4 pm

Illini Union Bookstore

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Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Professor, Sociology, University of Illinois

URL http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jnp/www/


  


 
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Is There Hope for Uncle Sam?
Beyond the American Bubble

 

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

'Jan Nederveen Pieterse brilliantly and engagingly depicts America's failing
approach to global policy, and what might be done by way of correction. This
lucid analysis deserves the widest possible readership and debate.' -
Richard Falk, Princeton University

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. 


 


 

 


 

 

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