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Second chance : three presidents and the crisis of American superpower / Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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  • New York : Basic Books c2007
Physical description
vi, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
ISBN
  • 9780465002528
  • 0465002528
Local notes
  • Copy with barcode 0202511534 is from the library collection of Professor Lawrence Freedman.
  • Freedman, Lawrence [former owner]
Notes
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • The challenge of global leadership -- The mists of victory (and the spawning of clashing historical visions) -- The original sin (and the pitfalls of conventional imagination) -- The impotence of good intentions (and the price of self-indulgence) -- Catastrophic leadership (and the politics of fear) -- Beyond 2008 (and America's second chance)
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  • http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2006039290-b.html
  • http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2006039290-d.html
Genre
  • Illustrated
Language
  • English
Related Internet Resources
  • A story of wasted opportunity and squandered prestige: a critique of the last three U.S. presidents' foreign policy. Distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.--From publisher description.

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