... on workplace activism in the motor industry was structured by reformist narratives about “unofficial strikes”, “closed shops”, “restricted practices” up to the 1970s, when more alarmist ideas about “decline” and “industrial chaos” became more dominant. Rising hostility to car workers’ behaviour was the context...

... than the threats our external enemies pose. Second, the president has an extraordinary faith in his ability to pursue engagement with adversaries that are anti-American tyrannies. Third, the Obama Doctrine embraces some version of declinism that posits that American exceptionalism and the U.S. role...

... Blackadder Goes Forth West Rebecca Allatini Rose Laure Herbert A P Macaulay Rose Raymond Ernest administrator passim All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 film Brittain Vera Jerrold Douglas Jones David Journey's End 1930 film Kipling Rudyard Nietzsche Friedrich Declinism Degeneration Oswald...

... to changing geopolitical conditions and the threat of systemic national decline, ushered in a new, and yet unstable, exceptionalism of national chosenness....

... strategy Wavell Field Marshal Lord Wilson H W blockade Chamberlain N Naval Staff Robertson Sir W Watson A Fuller J F C Joint Planning Staff Liddell Hart B H appeasement Ferris J Gibbs N H ‘Guilty Men’ Ten Year rule Halifax Lord Paris peace conference declinism Churchill W S Salisbury...

...Analysts have pronounced the end of American leadership since at least the 1970s. In the 1980s, some confidently proclaimed that the United States was in decline and Japan was on the rise. But in 1989, Moscow allowed its satellite regimes in Eastern Europe to collapse; in 1991 the Soviet Union fell...

... and develop compelling and effective responses to it. De Benoist Alain decline narratives France Germany globalization Groupement de recherché et d’etudes pour la civilisation européenne GRECE radical conservatism Venner Dominuque Alt Right movement Francis Sam Johnson Greg nationalism Trump...

... council houses sale of public sector pay state intervention Stevenage Celtic nationalism Liberal Party declinism Edward Heath Harold Wilson Margaret Thatcher ‘If we are to have General Election manifestoes, there is a lot to be said for keeping them as brief and unspecific as possible,’ opined...

... by a perceived decline of allegedly middle-class, bourgeois, or ‘Victorian’ values. This ‘declinism’ shaped Thatcherite plans in opposition for a new tax code that would encourage direct involvement with capitalist enterprise. Throughout the decades, however, policymakers and advocates of wider share ownership...

...-economic hegemony in global perspective. Finally, the chapter discusses the paradoxical flourishing of declinism as a discourse—at the same time as the insistence upon exceptionalism as a party-political dogma and a patriotic necessity soared. anticommunism Christianity Today Cold War evangelical...

...This chapter falls into two unequal parts. The first charts, broadly chronologically, the shifting understandings, historical and historiographical, of the role of the state in economic life. The second focuses on debates about the performance of the economy, especially notions of ‘decline’ which...

... “strike-free” in the mid-1980s. This chapter approaches this development from the perspective of the workforce and its shifting attitudes towards workplace activism and collective action, arguing that alongside wider economic and political factors, there was also general decline in the capacity of shop...

... Harvey D India Japan multipolarity Zizek S imperialism Krauthammer Charles Layne C Mearsheimer J J Soviet Union breakup of European Union Fogel Robert Gunter F R Institute of International Finance Babones S Brazil Dadush U Macao Manila Stancil B China Communist Declinism Network...

...Beginning with an efflorescence of interest in the universities at the start of the 1980s, this section explores the way in which fears about British decline shaped perceptions of higher education. It notes that the universities had never been more criticized, nor more popular, but argues...

...From the late 1950s until the 1980s the dominant narrative of post-war British economic history was one of ‘decline’. Originating as a commentary on contemporary events in the very specific circumstances of the late 1950s, ‘declinism’ entered the historiography soon after, and swept almost all...

... Harries Owen Iran nuclear deterrence nuclear nonproliferation Switzer Tom Waltz Kenneth declinism hard declinism Layne Christopher soft declinism Clinton Hillary humanitarian interventions Kaplan Robert Nye Joseph Jr power smart power soft power Blair Tony Brooks David Christian realism...

... twentieth century saw a fundamental transformation of the nature of the self. Certainly deference declined, individualism increased, and the idea that individuals had a right and a duty to choose their own lifestyles became culturally embedded as never before. Nevertheless, notions of the free, self...