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That Used To Be Us
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong…
The Frugal Superpower
In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the…
The Case for Goliath
How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United…
The Meaning Of Sports
In The Meaning of Sports , Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long…
The Ideas That Conquered The World
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy…