International affairs expert and award-winning author of Special Providence Walter Russell Mead here offers a remarkably clear-eyed account ...
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Feb 03, 2009
Joseph
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Mead has many insights into the structure of the post 9-11 world of international relations. Power, Terror Peace and War offers some fascinating views into the state of the international community, the clash of civilizations, the role's that individual states are most likely to play and offers a full spectrum of strategies on dealing with modern terrorism. Furthermore, what I like about Mead is his focus on all kinds of power. Mead goes into much detail about using soft power, sticky power and h
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Apr 10, 2010
Bethany
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I think Walter Russell Mead is a genius. I loved his book Special Providence. God and Glory was also stellar. This book was much less original than those; it felt like he was kind of scrambling to get out a book on foreign policy post 9/11 because everyone else was doing it. It's fine, just nothing really new that's not in other books on the same topic.
Feb 05, 2008
Ehren
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Reading/Read for a class. The book makes some good points about shifts in american foreign policy and the roles that Bush has had in enacting these changes that are generally perceived to be undesirable.
It's a very fast read, and i'm not sure that i like the book a whole ton, but it does have good information in it. My indifference in the book is likely to be a result of my general ignorance on historical events.
One really good point about the book is that Mead ties th More...
It's a very fast read, and i'm not sure that i like the book a whole ton, but it does have good information in it. My indifference in the book is likely to be a result of my general ignorance on historical events.
One really good point about the book is that Mead ties th More...
Dec 16, 2009
Daniel
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Mead's post-9/11 look at things, again uses the four perspectives(Jacksonian, Jeffersonian, Wilsonian, Hamiltonian.)
Sep 08, 2008
Just started reading it. I heard about WR Mead from my last book on American Vertigo.
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