The World Turned Upside Down: Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age (The Aspen Policy Book Series)

Book by Stephen E. Biegun, Madeleine K. Albright, Richard Danzig, John Deutch, John Dowdy, Michele Flournoy, Michael Froman, Stephen J. Hadley, Christopher Kirchhoff, Anja Manuel, Condoleezza Rice, Carla Anne Robbins, David E. Sanger, David Shambaugh, Dov S. Zakheim, and Philip D. Zelikow

Publisher – The Aspen Institute

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Paperback Release Date – December 12, 2017

Pages – 227

ISBN 978-0898436709

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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order that have emerged over the past several years and endeavor to provide practical recommendations for meeting these challenges.

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