Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialismby Joshua Muravchik

✍ Scribed by Review by: G. John Ikenberry

• Book ID: 125248423
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 320 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20033360

✦ Synopsis

A bold and elegant new statement about the coming breakdown of Pax Americana and a return to great-power rivalry. The United States is so powerful that it looks as though a Washington-centered inter national order will last forever. In this thought-provoking study, however, Kupchan argues that a unipolar world is unsustainable. Dramatic shifts in the international landscape are afoot-and America neglects this emerging unfavor able turn of events at its own peril. In Kupchan's view, two developments are