At the End of the American Century: America's Role in the Post-Cold War World - Softcover

Hutchings

9780801859168: At the End of the American Century: America's Role in the Post-Cold War World

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801859166 ISBN 13: 9780801859168

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

"It was one thing," writes editor Robert L. Hutchings in the introduction to the present volume, "to lead an alliance of Western democracies in a grand struggle against Soviet communism; quite another for the accumulated obligations of the forty years of Cold War confrontation to ensnare us in a continued international role against no certain foe toward no certain ends." In At the End of the American Century Hutchings brings together a distinguished group of authorities to review essential questions of morality, interest, politics, and economics in U.S. foreign policy after the collapse of the Soviet empire. The contributors―prominent legislators, foreign policy makers, scholars, and business leaders―offer a back-to-back basics inquiry: How much does morality, rather than self-interest, drive our foreign policy? How do we confront an anarchic world when our strategies have been developed for opposing singular, organized forces? What do we really want out of global trade, and do we know who our partners will be?The contributors are Thomas S. Foley, Jonathan Clarke, H.W. Brands, John Lewis Gaddis, Joseph Duffey, Robert Kaplan, James Rosenau, Bryan Hehir, Bowman Cutter, Michael Oppenheimer, Alfred Eckes, Samuel Berger, Ronald Steel, Milton Morris, Timothy Wirth, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

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About the Author:

Robert L. Hutchings is dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as diplomat in residence at Princeton University, chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council, special adviser to the secretary of state, and director for European affairs at the National Security Council, and is a former ambassador. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Polish freedom.

Synopsis:

Reviews essential questions of morality, interest, politics and economics in US foreign policy after the collapse of the Soviet empire. The contributors consider questions such as: whether morality, rather than self-interest, drives US foreign policy; how an anarchic world should be confronted when US strategies have been developed for opposing singular, organized forces; what Americans really want out of global trade, and whether they know who their partners will be.

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