The Dispensable Nation: American foreign policy in retreat - Hardcover

Nasr, Vali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1922247073 ISBN 13: 9781922247070

Verlag: Scribe Publications, 2013

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'An informed, smoothly argued brief that will surely rattle windows at the White House.' Kirkus Reviews '[A] vivid firsthand account of White House policymaking...Nasr's shrewd, very readable analyses of byzantine Middle Eastern geo-politics are superb.' Publishers Weekly 'A devastating portrait of a first-term foreign policy that shunned the tough choices of real diplomacy.' The New York Times '[A]rgues that the US has missed, through bad policy and the hindering of leading diplomats from doing their job, a golden opportunity to recast American foreign policy' -- Steven Carroll The Saturday Age 'Vali Nasr is without peer in explaining how and why political order is crumbling across the Middle East, and how and why China may reap the spoils. Along the way, he lays out in never-before-told, granular detail why President Obama's first term was such a disappointment regarding foreign policy.' -- Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst, Stratfor, and author of The Revenge of Geography 'An impressive tour d'horizon which includes a personally frank eulogy to Richard Holbrooke's failed efforts to shape U.S. policy in Afghanistan, revealing insights into White House vs. State Department collisions over U.S. strategy, and a sweeping review of the escalating geopolitical challenges the U.S. needs to address more intelligently in the Middle East, the Far East, and especially Iran. Gutsy, intriguing, and challenging.' -- Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Former State Department adviser for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and bestselling author, Vali Nasr delivers a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy, and outlines its new relationship with the Muslim world. Nasr takes readers behind the scenes at the State Department, and reveals how the Obama administration's fear of political backlash and the spectre of terrorism have crippled the efforts of diplomatic giants, such as Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton, to boost America's foundering credibility with world leaders. Now a second Arab Spring is brewing - not a hopeful clamour for democracy, but rage at the US for its reliance on drones and assassinations. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of the Middle East and first-hand experience in diplomacy, Nasr offers a powerful reassessment of American foreign policy that seeks to direct the country away from its failing relationships in the Middle East toward more productive, and less costly, partnerships with other foreign allies. Forceful and persuasive, Vali Nasr's book is a game changer for America as it charts a course in the Muslim world, Asia, and beyond.

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• Verlag: Scribe Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1922247073
• ISBN 13: 9781922247070
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320