by dorlomin » Wed 05 Aug 2009, 16:30:30
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he review in American Conservative compared this book with Rudyard Kipling's poems "Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden", both written at the height of British power and warning against imperial hubris.[11] The American Spectator review listed it as adding to similar themed books, comparing it to Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918), Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), and Robert Kagan's The Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008).[6] Kagan labeled The Post-American World as "declinist",[12] however Martin Woollacott of The Guardian labeled Zakaria an exceptionalist.[7] The Commentary review added the works of Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama to the list of comparisons and suggested there is now a sub-genre of books that consider the decline or demise of American hegemony.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Post-American_WorldSeems to be popular with elements of the intellectual right.
I think another deckchair and popcorn moment here though. Sad, looks like one of those interesting books that Id like to think leaders are reading.