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Power on the Precipice

The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World

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Power on the Precipice

By: Andrew Imbrie
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
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An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world

Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline. Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing global dynamics and compete more wisely.

Drawing on the author’s own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the United States’ place in the world today.

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©2020 William Andrew Imbrie (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Americas Military Policy Politics & Government United States Socialism Military Soviet Union China Capitalism War Leadership Imperialism Russia Latin American Imperial Japan American Foreign Policy Destiny Franklin D Roosevelt Self-Determination

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