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The Stupidity of War - American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency (Hardcover)
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The Stupidity of War - American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency (Hardcover)
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It could be said that American foreign policy since 1945 has been
one long miscue; most international threats - including during the
Cold War - have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been
agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions
that have mostly failed. A policy of complacency and appeasement
likely would have worked better. In this highly readable book, John
Mueller argues with wisdom and wit rather than ideology and
hyperbole that aversion to international war has had considerable
consequences. There has seldom been significant danger of major
war. Nuclear weapons, international institutions, and America's
super power role have been substantially irrelevant; post-Cold War
policy has been animated more by vast proclamation and half-vast
execution than by the appeals of liberal hegemony; and post-9/11
concerns about international terrorism and nuclear proliferation
have been overwrought and often destructive. Meanwhile, threats
from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, or from cyber technology
are limited and manageable. Unlikely to charm Washington, Mueller
explains how, when international war is in decline, complacency and
appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military
is scarcely required.
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