Follies of Power

David P. Calleo is currently a professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He has previously taught at Brown University and Yale University and was a visiting professor at Columbia. He has also held the position of Consultant to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. His previous books include Rethinking Europe's Future (2001), The Bankrupting of America: How the Federal Deficit Is Impoverishing the Nation (1992), Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance (1987), The Imperious Economy (1982), The German Problem Reconsidered (1978), America and the World Political Economy (1973), The Atlantic Fantasy (1970), Britain's Future (1968), The American Political System (1968), Coleridge and the Idea of a Modern Nation State (1966), and Europe's Future (1965).

• Part I. Geopolitical Illusions and their Consequences: 1. The unipolar fantasy; 2. Hubris in the Middle East; 3. The broken West; Part II. The Nature and Limits of American Power: 4. Assessing America's soft and hard power; 5. Feeding American power: the economic base; 6. Power and legitimacy among Western states; Part III. World Order in the New Century: 7. American and European models.

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