World Scientific Publishing Company Beleaguered Superpower: Biden's America Adrift

Product Description As a new president takes over in Washington, three intertwined threats imperil the world. One is internal. The others are external. The internal threat is a potent and increasingly anti-patriotic, anti-competitive, anti-meritocratic, and sky-is-the-limit federal deficit spending political current that is simultaneously diminishing and destabilizing American and global economic vitality. The two major external threats are the rising military power of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran and a global economic malaise sowing the seeds of discontent. America's role in containing the spread of new wave authoritarianism, and fostering competitiveness and global prosperity is critical, but domestic politics is preventing the Biden administration from adequately responding to these challenges. Biden's America is adrift.America is key to the survival of the free world. America is currently a beleaguered superpower. This book is possibly the first to address the politics shaping the likely course of America's new president in world affairs. It is politics, not idealist and realist abstractions, which determine international security. The world is concerned about what course Biden will take and the likely consequences. It will be the most carefully researched of such books.The book deals explicitly and extensively with issues such as spreading authoritarianism, the emerging new Cold War, global growth retardation, civic discord, economic sanctions, arms control, soft power and the deteriorating correlation of forces. The China weapons section of the book draws from the latest assessment made by the American Department of Defense. The book also includes a section on China's new technology generating innovation model and a chapter on Covid-19. About the Author  Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from Harvard University and is a Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN). His books include: Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: The West's Paralysis, Crisis and Decline, Cambridge University Press, 2013; Inclusive Economic Theory (with Ralph W Pfouts), World Scientific, 2014; Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (with Quinn Mills), World Scientific, 2015; Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (with Bruno Dallago), Routledge, 2016; The Kremlin Strikes Back: Russia and the West After Crimea's Annexation, Cambridge University Press, 2016; The Trump Phenomenon and Future of US Foreign Policy (with Quinn Mills), World Scientific, 2016; Trump's Populist America, World Scientific, 2017; China's Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions (with Jonathan Leightner), Routledge, 2017; The Unwinding of the Globalist Dream: EU, Russia and China (with Masaaki Kuboniwa, Kumiko Haba and Satoshi Mizobata, eds.), World Scientific, 2017; Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy, World Scientific, 2020, Progressive and Populists (with Quinn Mills), World Scientific, 2020. Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, economics and geopolitics. He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private corporations. He has published books about business activities, the media, American foreign policy, economic policy, and political processes. Mills taught for four decades at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Business School. He has done consulting and speaking in many countries. Mills earned his MA and PhD from Harvard, both in economics. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan.