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America's Search for Security - The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism (Paperback)
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America's Search for Security - The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism (Paperback)
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This book details the ways in which America's ascendancy to global
superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy
philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism
balanced with an equally constant realist restraint. In America's
Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in
American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking
about America's rise to power from the founding period through the
end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist
foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots,
analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of
what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes can befall America
abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied, unclear, and
fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an
unquestionable world power. This book also focuses on America's
recent "pivot" to Asia, and efforts to restore a realist balance
abroad and at home in the second Obama administration, concluding
with a look at what the future of American power will look like in
a rapidly evolving world in need of newer, more modernized, and
adaptable forms of leadership. Tracing the tension between idealism
and realism, Kay provides a detailed explanation of the rise of a
post-Cold War idealist consensus in Washington, D.C.-and shows how
that culminated in a return to realism in both the 2013 debates
over intervention in Syria and the 2014 crisis with Russia.
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