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FRONT COVER -- THE UNITED STATES IN DECLINE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD -- STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD -- EDITORIAL STATEMENT -- SERIES EDITOR''S INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION: THE UNITED STATES IN DECLINE? -- REFERENCES -- CAN THE U.S. SUSTAIN ITS GLOBAL POSITION? DYNAMISM AND STAGNATION IN THE U.S. INSTITUTIONAL MODEL -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DUAL ECONOMY: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND INNOVATION FROM BELOW -- POTENTIAL SOURCES OF STAGNATION WITHIN THE U.S. SYSTEM -- SOCIAL BARRIERS TO THE FUTURE OF THE U.S. MODEL -- DISCUSSION: WHY (MIS)UNDERSTANDING THE MODEL MATTERS -- THE DIALECTIC OF DUALISM IN THE U.S. MODEL -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- COLD WAR AND CHINA IN THE (UN)MAKING OF THE GLOBAL DOLLAR STANDARD -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STICKY DOLLAR -- THEORY OF CURRENCY DOMINATION -- GEOPOLITICAL FOUNDATION OF THE DOLLAR HEGEMONY -- US TREASURY BONDS: AN EAST ASIAN ADDICTION -- GLOBAL CRISIS, THE DOLLAR, AND THE RMB -- ALTERNATIVE TRAJECTORIES OF THE DOLLAR STANDARD -- REFERENCES -- CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE RISE OF FINANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- A POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA? -- HAS PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH SLOWED? -- THE EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE -- FINANCIALIZATION AND CAPITAL ACCUMULATION: EMPIRICAL STUDIES -- DATA AND METHODS -- SLOWING PRODUCTIVITY AND THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN GROWTH AND PROFITS -- FROM BOOM TO BUST: THE LAST TWO DECADES -- THE IMPACT OF “FINANCIAL INFLATION” -- HISTORICAL PREDECESSORS OF STAGNATING CAPITAL ACCUMULATION -- THE END OF US HEGEMONY? -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE FLAILING HEGEMON: MANAGING U.S. MILITARY DECLINE -- STRATEGY IS A CULTURAL CONSTRUCT -- THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT -- WHAT WAS REMARKABLE ABOUT COLD WAR STRATEGY -- THE THREE HEGEMONIC TASKS -- SHIFTING STRATEGIC POSTURES -- STRATEGIC ORIENTATION #1: BUSINESS AS USUAL: OVERTHROWING ROGUE REGIMES -- STRATEGIC ORIENTATION #2: GLOBAL CHAOS AND THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP -- STRATEGIC ORIENTATION #3: THE NEW COLD WAR WITH CHINA -- STRATEGIC ORIENTATION #4: AMERICAN JIHAD: THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR (GWOT) AND ITS MUTATIONS -- THE THREE VERSIONS OF THE GWOT: PART 1: ISLAM -- THE THREE VERSIONS OF THE GWOT: PART 2: GLOBALIZATION AND FAILED STATES -- THE THREE VERSIONS OF THE GWOT: PART 3: THE NEOCONS PROMOTE DEMOCRACY -- STRATEGIC ORIENTATION #3, VERSION 2. CHINA REDUX -- THREATS MULTIPLY: STRATEGY BY LIST -- WHY STRATEGIC CONSENSUS IS UNLIKELY: IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY AND FANTASY -- CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ELITE FRAGMENTATION AND THE DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES -- BACKGROUND -- HAS THE UNITED STATES DECLINED? -- WHO ARE THE CORPORATE ELITE AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE AMERICAN CORPORATE ELITE -- THE POSTWAR CORPORATE ELITE -- THE STATE -- LABOR -- THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY -- THE TWILIGHT OF THE POSTWAR ERA -- THE BREAKDOWN OF THE POSTWAR CONSENSUS -- THE BREAKDOWN OF THE AMERICAN CORPORATE ELITE -- THE DECLINE OF THE BANKS -- MANAGEMENT UNDER SIEGE -- POWER WITHOUT EFFICACY -- THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE? -- THE WAY OF THE ROMANS? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- FROM CONSENSUS TO PARALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1960–2010 -- THE GREAT U-TURN -- WHAT KILLED THE POSTWAR ELITE CONSENSUS IN AMERICA? -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONVERGENCE-2, OR THE FATE OF OTHER SUPERPOWER -- PREDICTIONS AND MISPREDICTIONS -- THE GEOPOLITICS OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISM -- BUREAUCRATIC OLIGARCHY -- CONVERGENCE IN CRISIS -- FRAGMENTATION THAN TRANSFORMATION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- .