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Reviewed by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

THE AMERICAN ERA

Power and Strategy for the 21st Century

By Robert J. Lieber

Cambridge Univ. 255 pp. $28

BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION

A Future Worth Creating

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

Putnam. 440 pp. $26.95

LAWLESS WORLD

America and the Making and Breaking of

Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to

George W. Bush's Illegal War

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