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The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course
Richard N. Haass
"Haass has presented an agenda for US foreign policy that is realistic, constructive, and conservative in the old sense." New York Review of Books
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March 2005
242 pages
ISBN: 1586482769
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"Since the end of the Cold War, the country has searched
for an integrating concept for the new conditions, a role
performed for a generation by Kennan's containment theory.
With The Opportunity, Richard Haass has undertaken to close
this gap with imagination and insight. It is an important
book for any period." -Henry Kissinger This is a book that
describes an unprecedented moment in which the United
States has a chance to bring about a world where most
people are safe, free, and can enjoy a decent standard of
living. The principal reason the 21st century shows such promise is
that the potential for armed conflict involving today's
major powers is remote. This remarkable development
reflects not just U.S. military and economic might but also
the assessment that much of what the United States seeks to
achieve in the world has the potential to be broadly
acceptable to others. But the combination of these circumstances will not stay
unchanged. Like all great moments, it will pass. If we are
not careful, the world could see its energies diverted by a
new cold war - or, even worse, descend into anarchy defined
by terrorism, disease, the spread of nuclear weapons,
genocide, and extreme poverty. More than anything else, it will be how well and how wisely
the United States uses its immense power that will
determine the future. The United States does not need the
world's permission to act, but it does need the world's
support to succeed. What will it take to get the world's support? The answer to
this question is what makes The Opportunity truly vital
reading. Richard Haass provides a much-needed foreign
policy compass, one with the potential to do for this post-
Cold War, post-9/11, post-Iraq world what George Kennan's
containment doctrine did for the previous era.
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