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America's contested primacy

Christopher J. Coyne (George Mason): Delusions of Grandeur: On the Creeping Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy. Ali Khan (Washburn): A Portfolio Theory of Foreign Affairs: U.S. Relations with the Muslim World. Time for a Reset: Jeffrey Herf on American policy and radical Islam. From World Affairs, Eric S. Edelman on The Broken Consensus: America's Contested Primacy. From The American Interest, Peter Berger and Ann Bernstein on the Freedom Consensus: The global economic crisis has convinced many that the Washington Consensus is "out" and the so-called Beijing Consensus is "in" — as it turns out, three countries (India, Brazil, and South Africa) are leading the way to a new paradigm; and A. Wess Mitchell and Jakub Grygiel on the Vulnerability of Peripheries: The United States must disprove the thesis of its decline, now being tested in three global hingepoints. Sy Hersh on the Obama/Bush foreign policies: Why can't America change? Oil or terrorism: Which motivates US policy more? Oops-istan: Stories from inside America’s latest geopolitical fuck-up. From the Globalist, a look at how America is like Imperial Spain (and part 2). William LeoGrande leads a book-bound tour that takes us from the Bacardi dynasty in Cuba to American military interventions in Central America. Michael Horowitz on maintaining American military power in an age of uncertainty. A review of Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire by Ian Tyrrell. A review of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety by Gideon Rachman.