Contrary to the prevailing views of the mainstream, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the principal crisis facing the US and the world is not terrorism, but the decline of American power and the decay of organizational structures of the world system. The book analyses this process and its effects.
Today, the United States is a superpower that lacks true power. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals, and the state of the Left, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyed--and troubling--assessment of the crumbling international order.
