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Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East distills eleven years of expert reporting for the
New York Times, Reuters, and the
Atlantic into a clarion call for change. Here Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror, and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons: American consumerism, technology, and investment. The author then surveys post-Arab Spring Tunisia, Turkey, and Egypt, and finds a yearning for American technology, trade, and education. He argues that only Muslim moderates, not Americans, can eradicate militancy. An incisive look at the evolving nature of war,
Beyond War shows how the failed American effort to back moderate Muslims since 9/11 can be salvaged.
About the author
David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters and the Atlantic. A former reporter for the New York Times, he has won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism twice. He is the author of Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II, and coauthor, with Kristen Mulvihill, of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides. He lives in New York City.
