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Originally Posted by drjd
Not yet decided what I'll read next. Will decide something in the night.
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As I needed a change of subject after reading so many crime fictions, I took up
The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" by
Geir Lundestad, waiting its turn in my TBR since long. As a contemporary political discussion, it was good to read.
The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the challenges from, first, the Soviet Union and, then, Japan, and the European Union. Now, however, the United States is in decline: its vast military power is being challenged by asymmetrical wars, its economic growth is slow and its debt is rising rapidly, the political system is proving unable to meet these challenges in a satisfactory way. While the US is still likely to remain the world's leading power for the foreseeable future, it is being challenged by China, particularly economically, and also by several other regional Great Powers.
Now I'll go back to fiction again, so I've decided to take
The Dead Stay Dumb by
James Hadley Chase published in 1939.