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The art of defending American power

Leo Panitch (York): American Empire, Capitalist Crisis and the Global South (and the conclusion to The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin). How the idea of global governance became a resource of American power: Mary L. Dudziak reviews Governing The World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower. Michael W. Cotter and David C. Litt review America’s Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st Century Diplomacy by Nicholas Kralev. Stephan Richter on Hillary Clinton and the art of defending American power linguistically. Robert Mason reviews Bending History? Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy by Martin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Michael E. O’Hanlon. Wes Vernon reviews Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Lenczowski.