How to Be a Superpower: The Public Intellectual Debate on the Global Role of the United States after September 11 - Softcover

Die Analyse des Autors ist eindringlich, quellennah, aber gleichzeitig ungemein dicht, so daß sich eine knappe Inhaltsangabe verbietet. (Das Historisch-Politische Buch 4/2015)

Endler beobachtet nicht nur die gegenwärtige öffentliche Debatte in den USA, sondern führte auch Interviews mit bedeutenden US?amerikanischen Intellektuellen. Auf diese Weise gelingt es ihm, die repräsentative Haltung der verschiedenen ideologischen Richtungen herauszuarbeiten ebenso wie innere Widersprüche aufzudecken. (pw-portal, 07.05.2015)

The discussion and enlightening perspectives marshaled within this book make it an attractive work to thinkers within and beyond the United States so as to make it not only relevant to the discourses taking place in other societies, but also renders the exploration within very much timely and a piece on which members of academic and non-academic circles alike might easily fall in the future. (Central European University Political Science Journal 3/2014)

How to Be a Superpower focuses on the role and self-perception of public intellectuals in 21st-century America, drawing on a series of interviews conducted with some of the nation's leading thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Michael Walzer. Through these interviews, Tobias Endler illustrates how intellectuals inspire, influence, and participate in the nation's public discourse and opinion-shaping process.