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Donald Trump has called for a turnaround in the foreign policy of
the United States (US). A key reason is that US foreign engagements
have in recent decades proved of little benefit to the US middle
and working classes.Trump's opponents have challenged him to prove
that he can offer a better alternative to the foreign policy which
has been pursued by the US since the Second World War.This volume
shows that a sane US foreign policy that adjusts US postwar
trajectory can be accomplished if leaders have the courage and
integrity to do so. The principles and many details of an
alternative policy based on democratic nationalism are described in
this book. Democratic nationalism presumes that the US is a large
family in which the needs of members of the family have a certain
legitimate priority over those of people abroad.While Donald Trump
has raised the level of discussion of these ideas in US public
life, he does not have a monopoly on them. The shifts in the US
foreign policy which are envisioned in this book can be made by any
president and any political party. The shifts and the
considerations which motivate them are deserving of careful
attention by any US chief executive. This is not a Republican
agenda, nor a Democratic one. We believe that it is a US agenda.
America and Europe responded to Russia's annexation of Crimea on
March 18, 2014 by discarding their policy of East-West partnership
and reverting intermittently to a policy of cold war. The West
believes that this on-again/off-again second Cold War will end with
Russia's capitulation because it is not a sufficiently great power,
while the Kremlin's view is just the opposite; Vladimir Putin
believes that if Moscow has strategic patience, Russia can recover
some of the geostrategic losses that it incurred when the Soviet
Union collapsed. The Kremlin Strikes Back scrutinizes the economic
prospects of both sides, including factors like military industrial
prowess, warfighting capabilities, and national resolve, addressing
particularly hot-button issues such as increasing military
spending, decreasing domestic spending, and other policies. Stephen
Rosefielde aims to objectively gauge future prospects and the
wisdom of employing various strategies to address Russian
developments.
America and Europe responded to Russia's annexation of Crimea on
March 18, 2014 by discarding their policy of East-West partnership
and reverting intermittently to a policy of cold war. The West
believes that this on-again/off-again second Cold War will end with
Russia's capitulation because it is not a sufficiently great power,
while the Kremlin's view is just the opposite; Vladimir Putin
believes that if Moscow has strategic patience, Russia can recover
some of the geostrategic losses that it incurred when the Soviet
Union collapsed. The Kremlin Strikes Back scrutinizes the economic
prospects of both sides, including factors like military industrial
prowess, warfighting capabilities, and national resolve, addressing
particularly hot-button issues such as increasing military
spending, decreasing domestic spending, and other policies. Stephen
Rosefielde aims to objectively gauge future prospects and the
wisdom of employing various strategies to address Russian
developments.
The goal of "Inclusive Economics" is to tie together various
authoritative strands of contemporary economic theory into an
easily comprehensible whole that illuminates the need for a broader
approach to contemporary economic policymaking undistorted by
obsolete 18th century rationalist assumptions about utility,
ethics, worthiness and traditional culture. This is accomplished by
elaborating the rationalist competitive ideal along the optimizing
lines pioneered by Paul Samuelson (neoclassical economics);
plumbing modifications necessitated by Herbert Simon's realist
concepts of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing"; refined
further by applying a pragmatist outlook to probe the consequences
of relaxing Enlightenment teleological, ethical, spiritual and
cultural taboos. The exercise will explain why competitive market
economies guided by rational utility-seeking invariably are less
productive, efficient, just and beneficent than most theorists
concede, and will illuminate the full range of interventions needed
to achieve better outcomes. We call this program in its entirety
"Inclusive Economics", including the integration of micro and
macroeconomics.
Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians
have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their
economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been
accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector
operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of
their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the
detriment of workers, the middle class and the non-political rich,
jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven
Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is
the source of America's economic decline and fading international
power, and provide an action plan for restoring 'true' democracy in
which politicians only provide the services people vote for within
the civil and property rights protections set forth in the
constitution.
The United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges
through the middle of the twenty-first century. Using a theory of
economic systems to gauge present and future global conflicts,
Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills see the challenges as posed
sequentially by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European Union.
In the cases of terrorism, Russia, and China, Western leaders
appreciate aspects of these perils, but they are crafting unduly
soft policies to deal with the challenges. The authors believe that
'globalists' notwithstanding, such views are myopic in an era where
nuclear proliferation has invalidated the concept of mutually
assured destruction. What America requires is a new security
concept that the authors call 'strategic independence' to enable
keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of
leaders capable of acting sanely despite a current public culture
addicted to wishful thinking.
Russia since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and
social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a
perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated
his regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a
superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression, modernized, restored
private property and business, adopted a liberal democratic
persona, and asserted claims to global leadership. Many in the West
perceive these developments as proof of a better globalized
tomorrow, while others foresee a new cold war. Globalizers contend
that Russia is speedily democratizing, marketizing, and humanizing,
creating a regime based on the rule of law and respect for civil
rights. Opponents counterclaim that Russia before and during the
Soviet period was similarly misportrayed and insist that Medvedev's
Russia is just another variation of an authoritarian "Muscovite"
model that has prevailed for more than five centuries. The cases
for both positions are explored while chronicling events since
1980, and a verdict is rendered in favor of Muscovite continuity.
Russia will continue challenging the West until it breaks with its
cultural legacy.
This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Abram
Bergson, the father of modern Soviet economic studies and modern
welfare economics. The first part deals with Soviet economics,
whereas the second part is devoted to welfare economics and
includes essays by four Nobel laureates, Samuelson, Arrow, Tinbemen
and Kuznets. All of the essays in the book are important
contributions in their own right.
The United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges
through the middle of the twenty-first century. Using a theory of
economic systems to gauge present and future global conflicts,
Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills see the challenges as posed
sequentially by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European Union.
In the cases of terrorism, Russia, and China, Western leaders
appreciate aspects of these perils, but they are crafting unduly
soft policies to deal with the challenges. The authors believe that
'globalists' notwithstanding, such views are myopic in an era where
nuclear proliferation has invalidated the concept of mutually
assured destruction. What America requires is a new security
concept that the authors call 'strategic independence' to enable
keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of
leaders capable of acting sanely despite a current public culture
addicted to wishful thinking.
This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full
fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and
China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to
conventional wisdom, this goal is easily within the Kremlin's
grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would
be immense. A sophisticated strategy is proposed to dissuade
President Vladimir Putin from pursuing this destabilizing course.
The book also explains why the Soviet Union imploded, why Western
experts missed the signs of the collapse, and how Russia has
metamorphosized into an authoritarian regime instead of pursuing a
transition to fully democratic free enterprise. It demonstrates
that the Soviet Union was 'structurally militarized', and that
Russia's military industrial complex is intact. The cold war image
of the Soviet Union as a westernizing, mass consumption society
committed to 'peaceful coexistence' is exposed as a statistical
illusion. A critique of American foreign policymaking is also
provided that emphasizes the confusion caused by tempering evidence
to conform with public expectations by failing to secure the
national interest in favor of satisfying a con
Democracy and its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians
have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their
economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been
accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector
operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of
their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the
detriment of workers, the middle class and the non-political rich,
jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven
Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is
the source of America's economic decline and fading international
power, and provide an action plan for restoring 'true' democracy in
which politicians only provide the services people vote for within
the civil and property rights protections set forth in the
constitution.
Russia since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and
social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a
perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated
his regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a
superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression, modernized, restored
private property and business, adopted a liberal democratic
persona, and asserted claims to global leadership. Many in the West
perceive these developments as proof of a better globalized
tomorrow, while others foresee a new cold war. Globalizers contend
that Russia is speedily democratizing, marketizing, and humanizing,
creating a regime based on the rule of law and respect for civil
rights. Opponents counterclaim that Russia before and during the
Soviet period was similarly misportrayed and insist that Medvedev's
Russia is just another variation of an authoritarian "Muscovite"
model that has prevailed for more than five centuries. The cases
for both positions are explored while chronicling events since
1980, and a verdict is rendered in favor of Muscovite continuity.
Russia will continue challenging the West until it breaks with its
cultural legacy.
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