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The Dispensable Nation
Vali Nasr
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Doubleday
April 2013
On Sale: April 16, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 038553647X
EAN: 9780385536479
Kindle: B009Y4I9EM
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political
Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and
Pakistan and bestselling author Vali Nasr delivers a sharp
indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines
a new relationship with the Muslim world and with new
players in the changing Middle East.
In this
essential new book, Vali Nasr argues that the Obama
administration had a chance to improve its relations with
the Middle East, but instead chose to pursue its
predecessor's questionable strategies there. Nasr takes
readers behind the scenes at the State Department and
reveals how the new government's fear of political backlash
and the specter of terrorism crippled the efforts of
diplomatic giants, like Richard Holbrooke and Hillary
Clinton, to boost America's foundering credibility with
world leaders. Meanwhile, the true economic threats, China
and Russia, were quietly expanding their influence in the
region. And a second Arab Spring is brewing-not a hopeful
clamor for democracy but rage at the United States for its
foreign policy of drones and assassinations. Drawing on his
in-depth knowledge of the Middle East and firsthand
experience in diplomacy, Nasr offers a powerful reassessment
of American foreign policy that directs the country away
from its failing relationships in the Middle East (such as
with Saudi Arabia) toward more productive, and less costly,
partnerships with other foreign allies (such as Turkey).
Forcefully persuasive, Vali Nasr's book is a game changer
for America as it charts a course in the Muslim world,
Asia, and beyond.
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