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Samtidigt beter sig USA, den mest inflytelserika nationen i det internationella systemet, nyckfullt och verkar ha \u00f6vergett den strategi man arbetat enligt i decennier d\u00e5 man har byggt starka allianser och motarbetat auktorit\u00e4rt styre, verkat f\u00f6r \u00f6ppenhet och tydligt engagerat sig i det som p\u00e5g\u00e5r runtom i v\u00e4rlden. V\u00e4l inarbetade institutioner, framf\u00f6r allt de mest prestigefyllda universiteten, verkar of\u00f6rm\u00f6gna att st\u00e4lla upp och bist\u00e5 med att sprida forskning och utbildning som hj\u00e4lper oss att fungera i denna nya v\u00e4rld. Hur ska vi relatera till denna oroande utveckling?\u00a0 Wonder and Worry samlar Francis J. Gavins texter fr\u00e5n de senaste tio \u00e5ren, bland annat om v\u00e4rldspolitikens och det internationella systemets tillst\u00e5nd. Vad har Amerikas roll i den globala ordningen varit och vad b\u00f6r den vara? Och hur ska vi analysera och sprida kunskap om de tv\u00e5 f\u00f6rsta fr\u00e5gest\u00e4llningarna? Gavins svar \u00e4r ofta nyanserade, utmanar g\u00e4ngse uppfattningar och \u00e4r \u00f6verraskande optimistiska. Wonder and Worry best\u00e5r av l\u00e4ttillg\u00e4ngliga texter om samtidshistoria f\u00f6r en os\u00e4ker tids\u00e5lder. Boken utges bara p\u00e5 engelska.\u00a0&nbsp;Said about Wonder and Worry:&#8221;Worried about the world? \u00a0Frank\u00a0Gavin\u00a0combines great historical perspective with important current insights in this very readable volume.&#8221;\u00a0Joseph Nye, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Harvard\u00a0University\u00a0and author of\u00a0A Life in the American Century \u00a0 &#8220;This is a brilliant collection of essays, full of humanity and humour but also a force of argument that will dislodge even the most tenaciously held illusions. Few are better than Professor\u00a0Gavin\u00a0at assessing the state of the field , whether that be prevailing thinking about international affairs or the pathologies of the academy. Taken collectively, these interventions represent some of the most refined and distilled thinking about the study of statecraft and the application of history to contemporary affairs in the transatlantic world today.&#8221;John Bew, Professor of History and Foreign Policy, King s College London \u00a0 &#8220;Fascinating read.&#8221;Graham Tillett Allison Jr., Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University \u00a0 &#8220;Francis Gavin stands among our the most perceptive and original strategic thinkers of our era, and this jewel of a volume collects a decade of his reflections.\u00a0 With wit, verve, and a subtle historical sensibility, he draws on the insights of the past to clarify the challenges of the present &#8212; and limns a prudently hopeful path for the future.&#8221;Will Inboden, Director of the Hamilton Center, University of Florida and author of the award winning book,\u00a0The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink \u00a0 &#8220;Frank Gavin is one of the great national security intellectuals of our time, a curator of ideas, and mentor to good work in others. This overdue collection of his own work reveals the trajectory of his thinking in so many edifying ways!&#8221;Kori Schake,\u00a0senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). 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