I bought this book without checking what year it was written. It’s all pre-911 and quite outdated I thought. The book was written before the Japanese economy imploded in the 1990s and when it was thought the Japanese would overcome America.

I did like the perspectives on civilizations and some interesting points are made about China and the “Orthodox culture.”

It was also quite a dull read!

Actually his argument isn’t very well respected (cough) in academia, it really isn’t that great of an argument, but it’s worth reading just because it’s well known and referred to often and somehow seems to have [at least partially] inspired current American foreign policy.

Startling facts about American foreign policies. Very well written