American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson
Charts the historical development of America's imperial reach
Like everything Anderson writes, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers deserves careful readingHe's one of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures (often drawing on many languages). -- Jeet Heer * The New Republic *
The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy disasters-the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, the twin quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq-were more than just errors of presidential judgement. They were the price America recurrently pays for the hubristic embrace of a messianic foreign policy, one that never disciplined its priorities according to rationally defined national interests. * New York Review of Books *
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *
Anderson is among the most insightful and policy-relevant analysts of modern Europe -- Andrew Moravcsik * Foreign Affairs *
One of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age. * TLS *
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers plunges into the contemporary American dreamworld of empire. Anderson has always been attracted to those who speak of the world without euphemism, and he appraises the recent offerings of American "Grand Strategists" with sardonic respect, however rabid or fantastic their conceptions. * London Review of Books *
Revives memories of the early-1960s vintage, anti-Wilsonian idealism classic, William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. -- Joe P. Dunn * Choice *
Anderson surveys the views of some of the most prominent mainstream American foreign policy intellectuals and finds them not only unconvincing but also incoherent. -- Eric Alterman * Nation *
Let me first get the superlatives out of the way. What we have here are two essays of extraordinary originality and penetrating insight. Sweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative, pungently written: all of the above apply. -- Andrew Bacevich * Diplomatic History *
The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy disasters-the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, the twin quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq-were more than just errors of presidential judgement. They were the price America recurrently pays for the hubristic embrace of a messianic foreign policy, one that never disciplined its priorities according to rationally defined national interests. * New York Review of Books *
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *
Anderson is among the most insightful and policy-relevant analysts of modern Europe -- Andrew Moravcsik * Foreign Affairs *
One of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age. * TLS *
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers plunges into the contemporary American dreamworld of empire. Anderson has always been attracted to those who speak of the world without euphemism, and he appraises the recent offerings of American "Grand Strategists" with sardonic respect, however rabid or fantastic their conceptions. * London Review of Books *
Revives memories of the early-1960s vintage, anti-Wilsonian idealism classic, William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. -- Joe P. Dunn * Choice *
Anderson surveys the views of some of the most prominent mainstream American foreign policy intellectuals and finds them not only unconvincing but also incoherent. -- Eric Alterman * Nation *
Let me first get the superlatives out of the way. What we have here are two essays of extraordinary originality and penetrating insight. Sweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative, pungently written: all of the above apply. -- Andrew Bacevich * Diplomatic History *
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 teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786630483 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786630486 |
| Title | American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers |
| Author | Perry Anderson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2017-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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