America in retreat : the new isolationism and the coming global disorder

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America in retreat : the new isolationism and the coming global disorder

Title remainder

the new isolationism and the coming global disorder

Statement of responsibility

Bret Stephens

Creator

• Stephens, Bret

Subject

• Intervention (International law)
• Isolationism -- United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
• International relations -- Forecasting
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-
• United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
• World politics -- 1989-
• World politics -- Forecasting
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

Language

eng

Summary

"Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens rejects this view. As he sees it, retreating from our global responsibilities will ultimately exact a devastating price to our security and prosperity. In the 1930s, it was the weakness and vacillation of the democracies that led to war and genocide. Today the regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Beijing, and Moscow continue to test America's will. Americans have often been tempted to turn our backs on a world that fails to live up to our idealism and doesn't easily bend. But succumbing to that temptation always leads to tragedy. The mantle of global leadership is a responsibility we must shoulder for the sake of our freedom, our prosperity, and our safety"--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

327.730090/512

Index

index present

LC call number

E907

LC item number

.S716 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography