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Informationen zum Autor Alan Curtis is president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Eisenhower Foundation. He was executive director of President Carter's urban and regional policy group. Dr. Curtis has written or edited ten books and coauthored one of the task force reports of the National Violence Commission. Leader of many delegations to China, he is a critic of that country's nondemocratic government and a supporter of Tibetan independence. He has degrees from Harvard, the University of London, and the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Featured on CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NBC's Today Show, Democracy NOW!, News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other leading talk shows. In the late 1960s, the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and extended by President Richard Nixon, warned that most civilizations have fallen less from external assault than from internal decay. Over recent years, the internal decay prophesied by the Violence Commission, but also by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his military-industrial complex farewell speech, has been reflected in American public policies. The fault lies on both sides of the political aisle. After Pearl Harbor, "Mr. Republican," Senator Robert A. Taft, said criticism is patriotic. Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense assembles more than three dozen patriots. They range from Kevin Phillips, chief political strategist for Richard Nixon's victory in 1968, and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, called a "true American hero" by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, to Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris, who advocated grassroots, populist policies when he ran for president in the 1970s. Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community shaken by, among other things, American torture and sexual humiliation of prisoners in Iraq? Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance and voting reform policies. Too much to expect of our civilization? This important and timely effort is published in cooperation with The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation. From Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Se Zusammenfassung Patriotism! Democracy! and Common Sense is a new strategic analysis of common-sense alternatives to the public policies America has pursued since September 11! 2001. This important book features more than three dozen internationally known experts in economics! foreign and domestic policy! media! and political action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Big Picture Chapter 3 The Challenge of Managing Dominance Chapter 3 National Security in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 4 A Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done? Chapter 5 Does America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity? Chapter 6 The Courage to Keep On Talking Chapter 7 The European Mistrust of American Leadership Chapter 8 America Needs Europe Chapter 9 Challenging Empire: The United Nations in a New Internationalism Chapter 10 Speaking Truth to Power: Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force Chapter 11 American Foreign Policy: A Tragic "Success" Chapter 12 Concern and Credibility Chapter 13 The Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged Chapter 14 Security and Democracy in the Post-September 11 Era Chapter 15 Village Democracy and Presidential Leadership Chapter 16 Domino Democracy: Challenges to United States Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East Chapter 17 American Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution Chapter 18 Awakening the American Political Debate o...
