The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan

The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan

A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world-and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.

Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos-that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.

Robert Kagan is a columnist for the Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1984 until 1988, he worked for the US State Department. With his wife and children, he resides in Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9780525563570
ISBN 10	0525563571
Title	The Jungle Grows Back
Author	Robert Kagan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2019-08-06
Number of pages	192
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