American studies in prospection : new vistas, enduring legacies
American studies stands out today as a major scholarly province, attracting-at the outest of the new millenium-multiform intellectual, academic, and even stratégic interests to explore this rather magnetic arena within the oveall context of the on-going debate between, on the one hand, those who see the world’s return to multipolarity as imminent, entailing thrrefore the corrosion of america’s global supremacy ; and, on the other, those who see its current difficulties as not more than “pathologies”of an unprecedentedly impressive trajectory.