Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0465071996
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Haass lays out a compelling vision for restoring America’s power, influence, and ability to lead the world and advocates for a new foreign policy of Restoration that would require the US to limit its involvement in both wars of choice, and humanitarian interventions.
Offering essential insight into our world of continual unrest, this new edition addresses the major foreign and domestic debates since hardcover publication, including US intervention in Syria, the balance between individual privacy and collective security, and the continuing impact of the sequester.
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This country’s reputation for judgment and competence and failed to produce results in any way commensurate with the human, military, and economic costs of the undertakings. Such an imbalance between means and ends makes no strategic sense at the best of times; it is even less defensible now, when the United States faces difficult challenges to its solvency. This book grows naturally out of two previous books of mine. The Reluctant Sheriff, published in 1997 in the early years of the.
Second pole. China’s rise is one of the defining features of this era. China has come a remarkably long way in a short time. Three and a half decades ago, at the end of the Cultural Revolution, China was home to some 900 million people with a GDP of under $200 billion. Today, population has increased by some 40 percent to 1.3 billion, but economic output has grown no less than 35 times, to $7 trillion! Hundreds of millions of Chinese moved out of poverty and left rural areas for cities. GDP per.
Economic growth. It may also require training, advising, and arming national or local police forces to deal with internal challenges to stability and the country’s army or coast guard to deal with external threats. The United States may need to carry out certain security-related functions itself, especially if the threats are developed. If this all sounds like nation-building lite, absent the large military footprint, it is because it is. But it is just this modesty of effort on the part of the.
Israel. The same holds for the political balance between more moderate, secular Palestinians who dominate the West Bank and the more radical Hamas, which controls Gaza, and the political landscape inside Israel. It is much too soon to conclude that recent political developments in the region will change much or possibly any of this favorably; indeed, the era of peacemaking between leaders is over. Peace must henceforth be supported by the masses and by elected politicians loyal to parties and.
A candid reaction. So let me salute several wonderful friends who are equal parts generous and wise: Ted Alden, Roger Altman, Robert Blackwill, James Lindsay, Meghan O’Sullivan, and Jeffrey Reinke. One additional reader of the manuscript merits separate and special treatment: Susan Mercandetti. Until recently, Susan was a book editor, meaning I got the benefit, which was considerable, of her professional advice. She is as good as anyone I know at helping an author frame an argument. More.