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by: Christian Reus Smit
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.73
EAN: 9780745631677
ISBN: 0745631673
Label: Polity
Manufacturer: Polity
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: May 28, 2004
Publisher: Polity
Sales Rank: 1411828
Studio: Polity
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In recent years American foreign policy has taken a unilateralist turn. Confident of America's economic supremacy and cultural magnetism, the Bush administration has embarked on an ambitious mission to further American interests and reshape global order.
In this compelling and insightful book, Christian Reus-Smit offers a sustained critique of the Bush Doctrine and its impact on the United States and the world community. Far from being a realistic response to the challenges of the post-September 11 global order, Reus-Smit contends that the current neo-conservative approach to foreign policy is deeply idealist and naive. He argues that the quest to re-establish US hegemony in the contemporary world is based on a flawed understanding of the nature of power and the complexities of the global system. This has led Washington to pursue policies ill-suited to addressing current sources of global disorder, such as intra-state conflict and transnational violence, inequality, alienation and environmental degradation. If this trend continues, Reus-Smit warns that it will have serious implications for global order and justice in the 21st Century.
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Rating:  - An excellent book on power and diplomacy
Christian Reus-Smit has been writing well on issues to do with international relations for a while, but this is easily his most accesible book to date and the one most likely to make an impact on foreign policy studies.
The general informed reader will enjoy this book and come away with some important thoughts regarding contemporary international politics - you don't need to be a foreign policy wonk to get a lot out of this book.
This is one that is sure to become quite ... Read More
Rating:  - Relevant, timely, insightful
`American Power and World Order' provides an intelligent and accessible rethinking concerning the sources, use and exercise of state 'power' and its relation to achieving influence and results. The discussion is relevant to all countries, but applies specifically and is drawn from the contemporary circumstance of the United States. The book is not very long and is elegantly written, making it easily and eagerly digested.
The core argument is that power (specifically the conception of ... Read More
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