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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.033573
EAN: 9780061195433
ISBN: 006119543X
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Sales Rank: 259344
Studio: Harper
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When Jeane J. Kirkpatrick died in December 2006, she left behind more than her legacy as a "heroine of conservatives." She had just completed work on this extraordinary survey of American foreign policy in the postCold War age: a bold and revisionist assessment of two decades of American interventions abroad—a troubled period of small successes, tragic failures, and important lessons for our future.
Since the end of the Cold War, Kirkpatrick argues, America's relationship with the world has been especially compromised by its mutual distrust with the United Nations, and by continuing uncertainty over U.S. involvement in conflicts among rogue nations overseas. In Making War to Keep Peace, Kirkpatrick offers a tightly observed chronicle of the result: a period in which the United States has increasingly used force around the world—to mixed and often challenging results. Tracing the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, she illuminates the shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious vision of a New World Order to the overambitious nation-building efforts of the Clinton administration. Kirkpatrick offers a strong critique of Clinton's foreign policy, arguing that his administration went beyond Bush's interest in building international consensus and turned it into a risky reliance on the United Nations. But she also questions when, how, and why the United States should resort to military solutions—especially in light of the challenging war in Iraq, about which Kirkpatrick shares her "grave reservations" here for the first time.
With the powerful words that have marked her long and distinguished career, Kirkpatrick explores where we have gone wrong—and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold.
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We Americans have assumed that most of the world's peoples shared our goals and values, especially our need to be free. We've thought they had the same yearnings, concerns and ideals. September 11, however, should have taught us that what we believed were universal truths simply are not. "There are people committed to, and indeed driven by, goals and values that run violently counter to our own," writes Jean Kirkpatrick.
It is too bad for America that it isn't Ambassador Kirkpatrick ... Read More
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A wonderful read from the practical, principled perspective of a true patriot. This book should be required reading for all who seek the office of chief executive of the United States. Jeane Kirpatrick understood full well the stakes of committing a nation to war when necessary to preserve the compelling goal of global peace.
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Like Reagan, Kirkpatrick was a Democrat who did not leave the party as much as it left her. This book is really way too short given the amount of sweeping historical events that she lived through and even helped shape, but given the fact that the book devotes so little space to the current wars declared by the terrorists, I suspect that her 80 years were taking their toll, especially since she was so meticulous in providing support for her ideas as well as her going into great detail about the major ... Read More
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Biographical information about Jeane Kirkpatrick is contained in the Editorial Review. She died of heart failure at age 80, just months before this book went to print. Ms. Kirkpatrick had a true and clear mind right to the end.
In this work I expected a "realpolitik" analysis of the power struggles, strategic alliances, competition for resources of the modern global era and how these related to the use of force in certain circumstances. These matters are kept in the background as Ms. ... Read More
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Lee hits the nail on the head!!
This is a fast reading book and one worth holding on to review again.
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