Book review: Agonies of empire:American power from Clinton to Biden by Michael Cox

In Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden, Michael Cox offers a selection of essays on the US and its empire, reflecting on its transitions under five US Presidents from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden. Drawing on Cox’s influential scholarship on the US and the Soviet Union, this timely collection is at its most powerful when tracing the emphasis by the White House on the domestic over the international, writes Caroline Kennedy-Pipe. Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden. Michael Cox. Bristol University Press. 2022.