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Cztery role Ameryki
Four roles of America

Author(s): Roman Kuźniar
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: United States; international order; global leadership; China; Middle East; Russia; globalization; global war on terror

Summary/Abstract: Article presents an international role of the United States during the last thirty years. More specifically, we can talk about four subsequent roles of America in this period. First, as a leader of free world and a rival of the Soviet Union at the end of Cold War (G.H. Bush). Second, as a global leader in the 90s: time of the „unipolar moment” (B. Clinton). Third, a failed hegemon after unsuccessful bid for hegemony during the double term of G.W. Bush. And fourth, restraint leadership of the US exercised by B. Obama. Thirty years of global leadership seems to have exhausted morally America as it has been shown by the election of D. Trump. This choice puts under question future of the U.S. as a global leader.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 101-117
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish