Has China Won?

O livro Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, de Kishore Mahbubani, aborda a crescente rivalidade entre China e Estados Unidos, argumentando ser, ao mesmo tempo, inevitável e contornável. Analisando erros estratégicos de ambos os lados, a obra esclarece pontos cruciais para o entendimento sobre a ascensão chinesa e a reação estadunidense. Além disso, oferece explicações sobre questões mal compreendidas pelo ocidente sobre a realidade chinesa, como o suposto expansionismo chinês e uma possível transição democrática na China.

THE AMERICAN STRATEGY FOR EURASIA

Book review : Zbigniew Brzezinski. 1997. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. New York: Basic Books, p. 240.

Understanding and Managing Alliances in the 21st Century

This concluding chapter wraps up the book by summarizing its main argument and key findings. It also describes several implications for the study of international security, especially with regards to understandings of credibility, the relationship between nuclear weapons and conventional military power, the effectiveness of coercion, American primacy, and the great power management of weaker states. It then outlines various policy implications that would be of interest to American and allied decision-makers.

The USA as a victim of international/transnational terrorism targeting what it is or what it does?

Purpose The USA has been suffering from international/transnational terrorism for decades. There is no consensus on whether this situation is a result of the international status of the USA and the principles it upholds or the policies it embraces in its interaction with the outside world. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts both the “American Primacy” theory and the “anti-Americanism” theory in its effort to reach a conclusion concerning this issue. This study aims to examine previous research that linked international terrorism to the US hegemony and the principles it abides by and showed the relevance of this perception to the “American Primacy” theory. It also examines the research that considered international/transnational terrorism as a result of the American foreign policy in its various aspects (economic, military, assistance or a whole combination of policies). Findings This literature on the American foreign policy and international/transnational terrorism was extensive and manifested the explanatory power of the “anti-Americanism” theory, especially in its three variants: issue-oriented, ideological and instrumental. While examining the foreign policy terrorism studies, the relevance of the “American Primacy” theory appeared at very few instances. Originality/value The study was able to prove that explaining the international/transnational terrorism is related to the foreign policy decisions taken by the American policymakers and cause harm to the outside world. The envy of “American Primacy” is of secondary importance.