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America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
Vintage
June 2005
256 pages ISBN: 1400077036 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
From one of our most brilliant and original writers on U.S.
foreign policy, a stunning and timely book on the policy of
the Bush administration and its current grand strategy for
the world. Mead begins by analyzing America?s historical approach to
the world?by no means perfect, but reasonably moral and
reasonably practical on the whole. Then he examines the
explosive foreign policy of the Bush administration and the
uproar it has caused at home and abroad. Bush, according to
Mead, is often strategically right but tactically at fault
in his attempts to lead a divided nation?and a divided
coalition of allies?in a dangerous struggle against
ruthless enemies. We see how the mass terror attacks of 2001 have changed the
political and strategic problems of American foreign
policy. Despair and decay in the Arab world now present
America and its allies with an extraordinarily difficult
challenge. The accelerating collapse of civilized life in
broad reaches of Africa?and the looming disasters of a
similar kind in Central Asia?threatens to create lawless,
violent zones where terrorism can thrive, and weapons of
mass destruction and biological and chemical weapons can
proliferate. We learn why key American alliances have frayed and why the
Bush administration?s pronouncements and actions have
ignited the most acrimonious U.S. political battles over
foreign policy since the Vietnam War. Mead closes with a
rigorous assessment of both Bush and his critics, and
describes the urgent steps the United States must take lest
casualties in the war on terror mount and the war itself
spin out of control. He proposes a new approach to the war
that can rebuild domestic and international support for a
tough antiterror policy, outlines a new initiative for the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and recommends sweeping
changes for reforming international institutions, including
the United Nations Security Council. Power, Terror, Peace, and War is a clear, concise guide to
some of the most pressing issues before us, today and for
the foreseeable future.
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