From The Washington Post
America in the new world order
By Steven Levingston
The underpinnings of American foreign policy in the 20th century – free-market capitalism, Western culture, peace and democracy – have lost their lustre in a large part of the world in the 21st century. In “The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas,” recently published by Harvard University Press, Steven Weber and Bruce W. Jentleson argue that America must shift its approach to maintain its place on the global stage. That means recognizing that the United States cannot dominate other nations anymore and must be willing to compete with charismatic authoritarian leaders and state-directed capitalism. Here, Weber, a political science [and information] professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and Jentleson, a professor of public policy and political science at Duke, outline how the world has shifted under America’s feet....