The frugal superpower: America's global leadership in a cash-strapped era

Abstract

The tyranny of numbers -- A new era -- Entitlements -- Foreign policy limits -- Two the novelty of scarcity -- The arc of American foreign policy -- The limits of American decline -- The world's government -- Adaptation to scarcity -- The seat belt effect -- The end of intervention -- The limits of cooperation -- The return of great-power politics? -- The global security order -- China -- Russia -- The heart of geopolitics -- The Middle East -- Oil -- The new containment