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Stephens, Bret, author.
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Isolationism -- United States.
Intervention (International law)
World politics -- 1989-
World politics -- Forecasting.
International relations -- Forecasting.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-
United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
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America in retreat :...
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America in retreat : the new isolationism and the coming global disorder / Bret Stephens.
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Stephens, Bret, author.
New York, New York : Sentinel, 2014.
Subjects
Isolationism -- United States.
Intervention (International law)
World politics -- 1989-
World politics -- Forecasting.
International relations -- Forecasting.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-
United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9781591846628 (hardcover)
1591846625 (hardcover)
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xvi, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Come Home, America -- Pax Americana and Its Critics -- The Overdose of Ideals -- The Retreat Doctrine -- Republicans in Retreat -- Decline, and Retreat -- The Coming Global Disorder (Theory and History) -- The Coming Global Disorder (Practice and Present) -- A Scenario for Global Disorder -- A Way Forward.
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"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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