Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946)[1] is a professor and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
[3] Mandelbaum was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine "for teaching America how to be a hegemon on the cheap.
Publishers Weekly said, "Mandelbaum's book is brilliant and enjoyable...[he] charts how nations find ways of acting together in diplomatically organized groups for defensive purposes, and he analyses certain countries' specific roles and histories.
"[14] In 2006, he wrote The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century,[15] in which he argued that US dominance in global affairs is better than the alternatives.
In 2010, he wrote The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era,[16] in which he argued that the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and economic obligations will redraw the boundaries of US foreign policy.
Published in 2011, That Used to Be Us addresses four major problems faced by America: globalization, the revolution in information technology, US chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption.