{"product_id":"americas-fatal-leap-isbn-9781836745556","title":"America's Fatal Leap:1991-2016","description":"\u003cb\u003eA decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut he wrote scathing op-eds for the National Interest and the American Conservative about the hubris and moral failings of the War on Terror, warning of damaging long-range effects on the international system. Schroeder compared 9\/11 to the assassination in Sarajevo that sparked the First World War, insisting that a great power should never give terrorists a war they wanted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wrote with extraordinary prescience - months before the US launched its attack on the Taliban - of the 'risks of victory' in Afghanistan, characterised the war in Iraq as a failed bid for informal empire, and called for 'disimperialism' in the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/i\u003e collects Schroeder's remarkable interventions on America's adventurism in the Middle East, from the 1991 Gulf War to the Surge of 2007. It includes an Introduction by Perry Anderson, author of \u003ci\u003eUS Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEver Closer Union?\u003c\/i\u003e | \"Probably the foremost expert on the history of international politics in the world\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lothar Höbelt, \u003ci\u003eInternational History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] essential starting [point] for those wishing to understand and critique American foreign policy today ... Armed with a historical perspective, Schroeder was one of the most perceptive critics of Bush’s war on terror.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Geary, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAmerica’s Fatal Leap\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world’s greatest international historians brings his unmatched historical and conceptual perspectives on European diplomacy to a critical examination of American foreign policy in the last quarter century. This brilliant and provocative set of essays is essential reading for all who think seriously about the United States and the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Few might know that the late Paul Schroeder, one of the authentically great diplomatic historians of the last half century, was an inveterate critic of US foreign policy after 1989. This absorbing compilation of his writings on America’s wars from a conservative perspective deserves rereading from all perspectives.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Samuel Moyn, author of \u003ci\u003eHumane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these sparkling essays, Paul Schroeder, the great historian of European diplomacy, gives a riveting critique of the means and objectives of American foreign policy in the unipolar era. A superb compendium.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Hendrickson, author of \u003ci\u003eRepublic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unlikely, but unwavering, critic of his country’s imperial efforts after the Cold War.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mathias Fuelling, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Few works provide as perceptive a guide to the past 25 years … reflects the brilliance [of these essays], the breadth of their historical grounding, and Schroeder’s ability to strike directly at the heart of misguided policy with blistering clarity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessica T. Mathews, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Draws upon wide and deep historical knowledge… The most personal, and moving, feature is the evolution of Schroeder’s feelings about his own country and its relationship to the international system.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John A. Thompson, \u003ci\u003eInternational Security Studies Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | Paul W. Schroeder is the author of, among other things, \u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e. He taught history and political science at the University of Illinois for many years and died in 2020 at the age of ninety-three.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759432020197,"sku":"NP9781836745556","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836745556.jpg?v=1775598523","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/americas-fatal-leap-isbn-9781836745556","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}