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American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Perry Anderson
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Description for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Hardcover. Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 460.
Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests at work in the unfolding of American foreign policy, is a subject much debated and still obscure. In a fresh look at the topic, Anderson charts the intertwined historical development of America's imperial reach and its role as the general guarantor of capital.
The internal tensions that have arisen are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the Cold War to the War on Terror. Despite the defeat and elimination of the USSR, the planetary structures for warfare and surveillance have not been retracted but extended. Anderson ends with a survey of the repertoire of US grand strategy, as its leading thinkers-Brzezinski, Mead, Kagan, Fukuyama, Mandelbaum, Ikenberry, Art and others-grapple with the tasks and predicaments of the American imperium today.
The internal tensions that have arisen are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the Cold War to the War on Terror. Despite the defeat and elimination of the USSR, the planetary structures for warfare and surveillance have not been retracted but extended. Anderson ends with a survey of the repertoire of US grand strategy, as its leading thinkers-Brzezinski, Mead, Kagan, Fukuyama, Mandelbaum, Ikenberry, Art and others-grapple with the tasks and predicaments of the American imperium today.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781686676
SKU
V9781781686676
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About Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, The New Old World and The Indian Ideology. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
Reviews for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Like everything Anderson writes, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers deserves careful reading. He's one of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures (often drawing on many languages).
Jeet Heer
The New Republic
The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy disasters-the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, the twin quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq-were more than just errors of presidential judgement. They were the price America recurrently pays for the hubristic embrace of a messianic foreign policy, one that never disciplined its priorities according to rationally defined national interests.
New York Review of Books
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book.
Gideon Rachman (picked for Summer Books 2015)
Financial Times
Revives memories of the early-1960s vintage, anti-Wilsonian idealism classic, William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
Joe P. Dunn
Choice
Anderson is among the most insightful and policy-relevant analysts of modern Europe.
Andrew Moravcsik
Foreign Affairs
One of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age.
Times Literary Supplement
A powerful and lucid intelligence.
Eric Hobsbawm The most profound essayist wielding a pen.
Christopher Hitchens The most polymathic, and the most profound, essayist currently wielding a pen.
Atlantic Monthly
One of the acutest and most unsparing analysts of twentieth-century social and political thought.
Stefan Collini
Jeet Heer
The New Republic
The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy disasters-the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, the twin quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq-were more than just errors of presidential judgement. They were the price America recurrently pays for the hubristic embrace of a messianic foreign policy, one that never disciplined its priorities according to rationally defined national interests.
New York Review of Books
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book.
Gideon Rachman (picked for Summer Books 2015)
Financial Times
Revives memories of the early-1960s vintage, anti-Wilsonian idealism classic, William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
Joe P. Dunn
Choice
Anderson is among the most insightful and policy-relevant analysts of modern Europe.
Andrew Moravcsik
Foreign Affairs
One of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age.
Times Literary Supplement
A powerful and lucid intelligence.
Eric Hobsbawm The most profound essayist wielding a pen.
Christopher Hitchens The most polymathic, and the most profound, essayist currently wielding a pen.
Atlantic Monthly
One of the acutest and most unsparing analysts of twentieth-century social and political thought.
Stefan Collini