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A Vision for America's Role in the World
Pantheon
October 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
224 pages ISBN: 0375424458 EAN: 9780375424458 Hardcover
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America today faces a world more complicated than ever
before, but both political parties have failed to envision a
foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. As a
result, the United States risks lurching from crisis to
crisis. In Ethical Realism, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman,
two distinguished policy experts from different political
camps, have joined forces to write an impassioned manifesto
that illuminates a new way forward. Rather than blindly asserting a mixture of American power
and the transformative effects of democracy, Lieven and
Hulsman call for a foreign policy that recognizes America’s
real strengths and weaknesses, and those of other nations.
They explain how the United States can successfully combine
genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. To achieve these goals, Lieven and Hulsman emphasize the
core principles of the American tradition of ethical
realism, as set out by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau,
and George Kennan: prudence, patriotism, responsibility,
humility, and a deep understanding of other nations. They
show how this spirit informed the strategies of Harry Truman
and Dwight Eisenhower in the early years of the Cold War and
how these presidents were able to contain Soviet
expansionism while rejecting the pressure for disastrous
preventive wars a threat that has returned since 9/11. Drawing on this philosophy and these historical lessons,
Lieven and Hulsman provide a set of concrete proposals for
tackling the problems we face today, including the terrorist
threat, Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China. Their
arguments are intended to establish American global power on
a more limited but much firmer basis, with greater
international support. Both morally stirring and deeply
practical, this book shows us how to strengthen our national
security, pursue our national interests, and restore
American leadership in the world.
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