Rewriting the epic of America / Ira Katznelson -- International engagement and American democracy: a comparative perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- International commitments and American political institutions in the nineteenth century / Robert O. Keohane -- Flexible capacity: the military and...

In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour,...

From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and the United States that will dominate twenty-first-century world affairs--an inside account of Beijing's quest for influence and an explanation of how America can...