America''s Fatal Leap - 1991-2016

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historians

List of contents

Introduction, Perry Anderson

1. A Just, Unnecessary War: The Flawed American Strategy in the Persian Gulf, 1991
2. The New World Order: A Historical Perspective, 1994
3. The Risks of Victory: An Historian’s Provocation, 2001
4. The Case against Preemptive War, 2002
5. A Papier-Maché Fortress, 2002
6. International Order and Its Current Enemies, 2004
7. For Shame, 2004
8. Misreading the 9/11 Report, 2004
9. The War Bin Laden Wanted, 2004
10. Liberating Ourselves, 2006
11. Mirror, Mirror on the War, 2006
12. Open Fire, 2007
13. Leave or Lose, 2008
14. From Hegemony to Empire: The Fatal Leap, 2009
15. Europe’s Progress and America’s Success, 1760–1850, 2012
16. Organized Hypocrisy, 2016

Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Paul W. Schroeder is the author of, among other things, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe. He taught history and political science at the University of Illinois for many years and died in 2020 at the age of ninety-three.Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.

Summary

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America's greatest historians

Product details

• Authors: Paul W. Schroeder, Schroeder Paul W.
• Assisted by: Perry Anderson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781804295762
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-576-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare and defence