Michael Mandelbaum: 9 books
by Michael Mandelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Expanding the powerful argument he makes with Thomas Friedman in their bestselling That Used to Be Us, Michael Mandelbaum describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, one of expanding wealth and vast opportunity.
IN That Used to Be Us, the bestseller Michael Mandelbaum wrote...
The Case for Goliath
How America Acts as the World's Government in the
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
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...
by Michael Mandelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. To be sure,...
by Michael Mandelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how...
That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential...
The Frugal Superpower
America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the United States did in the world....
Mission Failure
America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold...
Democracy's Good Name
The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most remarkable developments in history: the rapid rise of democracy around the world. In 1900, only ten countries were democracies and by 1975 there were only 30. Today, 119 of the world's 190 countries have adopted this form of government, and it is...
The Ideas That Conquered The World
Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced...