The Geopolitics of US Global Decline: Beijing and Washington Struggle for Dominion over the "World Island"

Alfred W. McCoy holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of nine books, most recently In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power.

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