Abstract
American Power and World Order, Christian Reus-Smit, Themes for the 21st Century; Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2004, pp. xii, 184.This book begins and ends with analogies between the United States and Rome. The analogies are familiar ones. The remarkable military, economic and technological preponderance of America are acknowledged. The fatal flaws of hubris and “immoderate greatness” are asserted and warned against. In between, Christian Reus-Smit weaves a narrative of decline, in which he attempts to explain why America is unable to exercise international influence commensurate with its material preponderance in the world.
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