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Kagan, Robert.
Subjects
World politics -- 1945-1989.
World politics -- 1989-
Security, International.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
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Kagan, Robert.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
World politics -- 1989-
Security, International.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
MARC Display
The
jungle
grows
back
:
America
and
our
imperiled
world
/ Robert Kagan.
by
Kagan, Robert.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Call #:
327.73009 K11j
Subjects
World
politics -- 1945-1989.
World
politics -- 1989-
Security, International.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
ISBN:
9780525521655 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
179 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179).
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
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