By losing their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, nation states, assers Ohmae, have forfeited their role as critical participants in the global economy. Ohmae contends that five great forces have usurped the economic power once held by the nation state, resulting in the rise of region states which have closer links to the global economy than to their "host" nations.
History and identity in US foreign policy -- Victory and identity : the end of the Cold War in American imagination / Roger Johnson -- Cosmopolitanism or nativism? : US national identity and foreign policy in the twenty-first century / Carl Pedersen -- Motivations, identity and ideology in US foreign policy -- A neo-conservative-dominated US foreign policy establishment? / Inderjeet Parmar -- P…
As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. It examines Russian vulnerabilities and anxieties; analyzes potential policy options to exploit them; and assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the li…