"This book succeeds in showing that there are sound alternatives to
the dominant unilateralist approach for dealing with the national
security and foreign policy challenges confronted by the United
States. Bravo for Professor Shapiro!"--Ernesto Zedillo, former
President of Mexico, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization
"At a time and on an issue that cry out for fresh, critical, and
constructive thinking, Ian Shapiro has performed a great service by
laying out a bold yet pragmatic idea for dealing with the threats
America faces in the post-September 11 world. He has adapted an old
idea that worked--the containment of communist expansion during the
Cold War--to the task of replacing a policy that has, to a
spectacular and tragic degree, not worked: military preemption and
the attempt to impose democracy in the name of waging 'the War on
Terror.' His critique of both the Bush administration and many of
its Democratic opponents is hard-hitting and well substantiated;
his recommendations are compelling; and his presentation is concise
and forceful. The result is a major contribution to the debate over
the single most vexing and important political challenge facing the
U.S. and the world."--Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings
Institution, former Deputy Secretary of State
"Ian Shapiro follows up his masterful analysis of the politics
of taxation("Death by a Thousand Cuts") with a wonderfully clinical
dissection of U.S. foreign policy. Shapiro recognizes that the
policy of the present administration is not just a bad idea
stumbled across by accident, but a bad idea that was carefully
husbanded and nurtured for years by people who were deadly serious
aboutpower and unafraid to use it. It is time, he believes, for
Democrats who are serious about making the best use of power to
stop triangulating these bad ideas, and to start trying to nurture
some good ideas of their own. This crystal-clear account of the
merits of a policy of containment represents an excellent place for
them to begin."--David Runciman, author of "The Politics of Good
Intentions"
"This is by far the best critique of the Bush administration's
national-security doctrine that I have read. Its prose is lively
and engaging. It focuses on the essentials and makes a clear
argument that is effectively supported by his judicious reflections
on the history of the Cold War and on contemporary issues including
the war on terror and the conflicts in the Middle East."--Michael
W. Doyle, Columbia University
"Shapiro's new book is a rich and nuanced critique of the Bush
administration's doctrine of preemption and democracy promotion and
its related foreign-policy agendas. He traces the rise of the
administration's preoccupation with Iraq and terrorism, and the
fallout in domestic and regional terms. He manages to cut to the
heart of the matter without compromising the detail. His analysis
also provides the all-important historical backdrop that has often
been absent in other studies."--Anoush Ehteshami, Durham
University
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