Second Chance Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower

Name: Second Chance Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
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ISBN: 9780465003556

ISBN-10: 0465003559

ISBN-13: 9780465003556

Edition: 2008

Authors: Zbigniew Brzezinski

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America's Most Distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.03" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




The Challenge of Global Leadership



The Mists of Victory: (and the Spawning of Clashing Historical Visions)


Confused Expectations


The Search for Certitude



The Original Sin: (and the Pitfalls of Conventional Imagination)


Victorious Diplomacy


Forsaken Triumph



The Impotence of Good Intentions: (and the Price of Self-Indulgence)


Shaping the Future


Confronting the Past



Catastrophic Leadership: (and the Politics of Fear)


"The Central Front" as the Cemetery of Neocon Dreams


And the Rest of the World



Beyond 2008: (and America's Second Chance)


How Has America Led?


Will America Have a Second Chance?


The Geopolitics of Global Political Awakening


Afterthoughts on Iraq and the War on Terror


Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony: Zbigniew Brzezinski


Terrorized by "War on Terror": How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America


Acknowledgments


Index