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³²⁰ Scott Harold and Alireza Nader, China and Iran: Economic, Political. And Military Relations (Washington, DC: RAND Corporation, 2012).

³²¹ John Garver, Flynt Leverett, and Hillary Mann Leverett, Moving (Slightly) Closer to Iran: China’s Shifting Calculus for Managing Its «Persian Gulf Dilemma» (Washington, DC: Reisсhauer Center for East Asian Studies, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 2009).

³²² John Garver, «Is China Playing a Dual Game with Iran?» Washington Quarterly 34, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 75–88; «The Iran Nuclear Issue: The View from Beijing», Asia Briefing no. 100 (overview), International Crisis Group, February 17, 2010,view-from-beijing.aspx.

³²³ Fallows, China Airborne, p. 190.

³²⁴ James Mann, The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power (New York: Viking, 2012), pp. 246—47.

³²⁵ Gideon Rachman, Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011); Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012); Robert J. Lieber, Power and Willpower in the American Future (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

³²⁶ Roger C. Altman and Richard N. Haass, «American Profligacy and American Power: The Consequences of Fiscal Irresponsibility», Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010,Бжезинский заявляет, что восстановление американских позиций в мире должно начинаться с наведения порядка в экономике. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2012), pp. 37–74.

³²⁷ Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, Release 2,0 (New York: Norton, 2011); Charles A. Kupchan, No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (New York: Oxford University Press. 2012).

³²⁸ Joseph Nye, The Future of Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2011).

³²⁹ Лесли Гелб предлагает поучительное исследование этого вопроса в: Leslie H. Gelb, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (New York: Harper, 2009).

³³⁰ Robert Kagan, «Not Fade Away: The Myth of American Decline», New Republic, January 11, 2012, http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism.

³³¹ «Fact Sheet: ‘A Moment of Opportunity’ in the Middle East and North Africa», press release, May 19, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/fact-sheet-moment-opportunity-middle-east-and-north-africa.

³³² Hassan Bin Talal, «U.S. Can’t Abandon the Middle East», Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012,2012/apr/17/option/la-oe-hassan-middle-east-engagement-20120417.

³³³ Vali Nasr, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World (New York: Free Press. 2009), pp. 252—63.

³³⁴ Brzezinski, Strategic Vision, p. 190.

³³⁵ G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).

³³⁶ Robert O. Keohane, «Hegemony and After», Foreign Affairs, July/August 2012,137690/robert-o-keohane/hegemony-and-after.

³³⁷ G. John Ikenberry, «The Future of the Liberal World Order», Foreign Affairs, May/June 2011, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67730/g-john-ikenberry/the-future-of-the-leberal-world-order.