ABSTRACT
From the Americas to Russia, South Africa to Turkey, to Japan and China, and beyond, this book has presented a global picture of American hegemony and rising powers. The theoretical discussions included range from neo-realism to historical materialism to discursive analysis, providing a space for readers to view the question of American decline through many lenses, and make up their own minds based upon comparative analysis of a great range of approaches to the issue. Admittedly, we do not cover every region and country in the amount of detail that would entirely solve the questions at stake. Nor does this book detail and compare every theoretical school of thought which might be put to use to understand rising powers in contemporary global politics. To accomplish those tasks would take many volumes and hundreds of scholars. But what the book does provide is a multidisciplinary space that may be as much or more of a starting point rather than an end point towards moving to a global and comprehensive analytical frame, making it possible to solve the question of the current and possible future movement of international power in the first place.
