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One of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers provides an eye-opening look at America's new role in the world, the responsibilities it has undertaken, and the challenges it faces.

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How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern.

Mandelbaum explains how this role came about despite the fact that neither the United States nor any other country sought to establish it. He describes the contributions that American power makes to global security and prosperity, the shortcomings of American foreign policy, and how other countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's global role. And he assesses the prospects for the continuation of this role, which depends most importantly on whether the American public is willing to pay for it.

Written with Mandelbaum's characteristic blend of clarity, wit, and profound understanding of America and the world, The Case for Goliath offers a fresh and surprising approach to an issue that obsesses citizens and policymakers the world over, as well as a major statement on the foreign policy issues confronting the American people today.

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  • Title The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the
  • Author Michael Mandelbaum
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs
  • Publication date 2006-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781586484583 / 1586484583
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 6.4 x 0.86 in (20.98 x 16.26 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

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Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy; Director of the American Foreign Policy Program at Johns Hopkins, SAIS. He is a former faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University and the U.S. Naval Academy; his Ph.D. in political science came from Harvard University.
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