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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction: America as Has-Been
Chapter One
“It’s Decline Time in America:” A Short History
The 1950s: The Russians Are Coming!
The 1960s: The “Unraveling of America”
The 1970s: America’s “Malaise”
The 1980s: Japan’s “Rising Sun”
The Twenty-First Century: The Chinese Are Coming!
Chapter Two
Politics and Prophecy, or the Uses of Declinism
The Structure of Doomism
The Functions of Doomism
Why Glee, Why Doom?
Chapter Three
The Powers and Their Power: Measuring What Matters
The Facts and the Figures
Frames vs. Films
What Is Power?
Chapter Four
Hype and History: Why Tomorrow Is Not Like Yesterday
The High Rollers of the Twentieth Century
A Tale of Tigers and Dragons
Chapter Five
The Next Number One: China and Yesterday’s Highfliers
A Superstar Is Born
Modernitarianism: New Dragon vs. Old Tigers
State Capitalism 2.0
The Four Fault Lines of State Capitalism 2.0
Chapter Six
Challengers and Champions: Why America’s Edge Will Endure
Demography and Destiny
Power Today and Tomorrow: Education
The Power of Invention
The Power of Immigration
Modernitarianism vs. the Liberal Model
Chapter Seven
America, the West, and the Rest: Who Will Own the Twenty-First Century?
The World’s New Power Map
The Lure of Liberal Empire
Liberal Empire Made in U.S.A.
America as XXL Britain
The Default Power
The Prospects of American Power
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Praise for THE MYTH OF AMERICA'S DECLINE
Copyright
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