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A short 'warning from history' book that uses America's past to
explain and reconfigure the present crisis facing the US, in the
vein of Tim Snyder's On Tyranny & Anne Applebaum's Twilight of
Democracy. 'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has
advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible and will change almost
everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more
compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial Times In
Everything is at Stake, US Conservative Robert Kagan diagnoses the
present crisis by explaining how America got here, and will paint a
crystal-clear, albeit terrifying, picture of what could happen
next. Rich in parallels between the past and the present, combining
palpable outrage at what America has become with an impassioned
defence of what is at stake. This book explains the current
political climate in the US better than anything else you'll read,
from a lifelong conservative who has formally disowned the party,
thanks to its support of Trump. From race and populism to fascism
and the future of conservatism, to the real prospects of a second
term for Donald Trump, Robert Kagan tells us just how scared we
should be as the United States journeys through its biggest
political crisis in over a hundred years.
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role
as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving
its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert
Kagan explores these questions and much more.
"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America's unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman, The New York Times
A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.
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Jewish Medicine (Paperback)
Solomon Robert Kagan; Contributions by Hyman Morrison, Max Neuberger
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R1,328
Discovery Miles 13 280
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Additional Contributors Are Reuben Friedman And Abraham Levinson.
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Jewish Medicine (Hardcover)
Solomon Robert Kagan; Contributions by Hyman Morrison, Max Neuberger
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R1,615
Discovery Miles 16 150
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Additional Contributors Are Reuben Friedman And Abraham Levinson.
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the
Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are
once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains
"unipolar," but international competition among the United States,
Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of
regional conflict, and a new contest between western liberalism and
the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected
ideology into geopolitics.
For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally
divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in
The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan
masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal
democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want
to shape history or let others shape it for them.
This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe
that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign
policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors
to this book show why America must take another look at our
possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers
offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm
adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist
threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James
Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Reuel Marc
Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg,
Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William
Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to
make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight
years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000. Table of
contents, notes, bibliographic essay.
The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in
Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan
against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the
legacy of President Obama. From Ukraine to the Middle East to
China, the United States is redefining its role in international
affairs. Alliance building, public diplomacy, and eschewing
traditional warfare in favour of the focused use of hard power such
as drones and special forces are all hallmarks of the so-called
Obama Doctrine. Is this a farsighted foreign policy for the United
States and the world in the twenty-first century — one that
acknowledges and embraces the increasing diffusion of power among
states and non-state actors? Or, is an America “leading from
behind” a boon for the nations and blocs who want to roll back
economic globalization, international law, and the spread of
democracy and human rights? In this edition of the Munk Debates,
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bret Stephens and famed
historian and foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan square off
against CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and noted academic and political
commentator Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President
Obama. With ISIS looking to reshape the Middle East, Russia
increasingly at odds with the rest of the West, and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a standstill, the Munk Debate on
Foreign Policy asks: Has Obama’s foreign policy taken the U.S. in
the right direction?
Realists have long argued that the international system must be
based on hard calculations of power and interest. But in recent
years, religion's role on the international scene has grown. The
Influence of Faith examines religion as a growing factor in world
politics and U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is placed on
the American reaction to the persecution of Christians and Jews
overseas, as well as the role of faith-based groups such as
missionary and relief organizations in the formulation and
implementation of U.S. policy. The Influence of Faith considers
these timely issues from diverse points of view, offering broad
historical analysis as well as concrete examples taken from current
affairs.
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