America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our grea...
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Nov 06, 2010
Rick
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Written in 2006 to argue against the US invading Iran. Yet holds some important foreign policy precepts that have been overlooked in the emotionalism following 9/11 and the heavy momentum of the military industrial complex's influence on foreign policy.
Apr 03, 2008
Damir
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A reaction to the neoconservative excess of the past near-decade, it's more an impassioned pamphlet for a sane foreign policy than a deeply thought-out book. The prescriptions feel good, but there's not much to recommend them apart from "you know in your heart they're right". The section on the Middle East, which offers a convoluted multi-step plan for success, seems particularly naïve—"of course, had we only been as smart as these two think-tankers, everything would be solved!"
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Jan 17, 2010
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World by Anatol Lieven (2006)
Jun 29, 2007
Nate
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Ethical Realism is very vague and doesn't have a good point, it touts a foreign policy that it doesn't explain and lacks serious objectivity.
That said it does address the growing Messaianism of american foreign policy and it points out a few faults in our current policy that are very interesting.
That said it does address the growing Messaianism of american foreign policy and it points out a few faults in our current policy that are very interesting.
Feb 08, 2008
Dsanford
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Still reading - I think this is the right approach to foreign policy - applying our ideals consistantly and inexorably - but slowly and with our eyes open to unintended consequences
Apr 12, 2008
Kevin
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This was a brave book that made a number of good points. It's worth reading even though I wish that they had made more concrete proposals.
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