{"product_id":"the-empire-and-the-five-kings-americas-abdication-and-the-fate-of-the-world","title":"The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World","description":"One of the West’s leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America’s withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.\n\nThe United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western worldand to oppose autocracy and repression. Even when America did not live up to its ideals, it still recognized their importance, at home and abroad.\n\nBut as Bernard-Henri Lévy lays bare in this powerful and disturbing analysis of the world today, America is retreating from its traditional leadership role, and in its place have come five ambitious powers, former empires eager to assert their primacy and influence. Lévy shows how these five―Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, and Sunni radical Islamism―are taking steps to undermine the liberal values that have been a hallmark of Western civilization.\n\nThe Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution will require the West to find a new way forward if its principles and values are to survive.\n\nAs seen on Real Time with Bill Maher (2\/22\/2019) and Fareed Zakaria GPS (2\/17\/2019).\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250203015\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1250203015.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Lévy, Bernard-Henri\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents and worn corners. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting,but the text is not obscured or unreadable. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43333760745533,"sku":"BVV.1250203015.A","price":6.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1250203015-0.jpg?v=1783642466","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-empire-and-the-five-kings-americas-abdication-and-the-fate-of-the-world","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}