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  • The American Imperative

  • Reclaiming Global Leadership Through Soft Power
  • By: Daniel F. Runde
  • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
  • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

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Summary

It's time for America to get back in the international leadership game.

What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we're no longer the only major player?

In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power. Runde maps out many of the steps that we need to take—primarily in the non-military sphere—to ensure an alliance of stable and secure, like-minded, self-reliant partner nations in order to prevent rising authoritarian powers such as China from running the world.

©2023 Daniel F. Runde (P)2022 Kalorama

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