From the Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: This was a controversial book, and likely remains so. The world 25 years later looks quite different. With the end of the Cold War, the United States is now the world's only superpower. If this country cannot shape the international system and bring peace and stability to much of the world, surely no other state can. Yet the will to a broadly internationalist foreign policy cannot currently be found in the United States. The near-consensus that ranged across foreign policy elites before the Vietnam War has never been restored. Maybe...
From the Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: This was a controversial book, and likely remains so. The world 25 years later looks quite d...
