How to be a superpower
the public intellectual debate on the global role of the United States after September 11
- ISBN: 9783847400356
- Editorial: Barbara Budrich Verlag
- Fecha de la edición: 2012
- Lugar de la edición: Leverkusen. Alemania
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 280
- Idiomas: Inglés
How To Be a Superpower is a unique and insightful book that explores the role and self-perception of public intellectuals in 21st-century America. The book evaluates a series of interviews Tobias Endler conducted with the most prominent 'professional thinkers' in the field of foreign policy since 9/11. The original interviews were published in Endler's previous book After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves: 17 Conversations. Challenging the idea that intellectuals are becoming increasingly irrelevant, the new book argues that they have managed to stake out a significant role in present society. Accelerated and intensified by the events of 9/11, renowned experts - such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Michael Walzer - have engaged in a vibrant public political debate on the global status of the United States. The fascinating interviews illustrate how intellectuals inspire, influence, and participate in the nation's current public discourse and opinion-shaping process.