Most Important Concepts
Action Points
Chapter Recap
Section 1: The end of an era
How the beginning began
Enter the accidental superpower
- American geography has been perfect for their rise to a superpower.
And now for something completely different
- The post-cold war era is only possible because of a lingering American commitment to a security paradigm that suspends geopolitical competition and subsidizes the global order.
- With the end of the cold war, those needs have changed, and that policy is no longer necessary.
The story of … us
History speeds up
Learning a scary word
The end of more
Messy, messy models
The last bits of more
Section 2: Transport
The long, long road
Breaking free
The Americanization of trade
The great unmaking