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Books : The Return of History and the End of DreamsIn association with Amazon.comby: Robert Kagan  List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 327.1 EAN: 9780307269232 ISBN: 030726923X Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: April 29, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: April 29, 2008 Studio: Knopf Sales Rank: 1248 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics. Finally, radical Islamists are waging a violent struggle against the modern secular cultures and powers that, in their view, have dominated, penetrated, and polluted their Islamic world. The grand expectation that after the Cold War the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong. For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A great studyThe author, Robert Kagan, is a brilliant writer, historian and political scientist, much too bright to be a part of the Dick Cheney staff, yet he conceals those prejudices in his writing. He has become one of my favorite authors, and this book is a wonderful study of the history of America's expansionist foreigh policy. Rating:  - A blowhard with an extremely dishonest palOne of Kaplan's pals is Parag Khanna, who has written a book titled The Second World, which is an astonishing display of intellectual dishonesty and disregard for facts. Robert Kaplan describes this book as "a savvy, streetwise primer on dozens of individual countries that adds up to a coherent theory of global politics." Having been generously praised in book reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among other publications, I ordered the book with ... Read More Rating: - Return of History: Power Politics and Nationalism Here To StayAt barely over a hundred pages this book contains a wonderfully wise and judicious summary of the diplomatic, foreign policy conundrums facing the world today. On the day I began reading Robert Kagan's Return of History I heard on the news that Russia had begun patrolling the Arctic region with nuclear submarines, something they had not done since the fall of the Soviet empire. This datum ties in very nicely with Kagan's succinct, well-written book putting current-day foreign ... Read More Rating: - Important BookAn insightful review of where we are in the US today. Should be required reading for all voters. Rating: - The Malignity of MultipolarityThis is a perceptive and far-sighted examination on the state of global politics as the decade approaches its end, in the form of an extended essay. A new axis of evil is rising in opposition to the West, one not guided by a shared ideology except in so far as hostility to the rule of law and democracy might be considered ideological. Kagan predicts that the future will see the return of nationalism, growing tensions and confrontation between the forces of democracy and autocracy. What matters is a nation's ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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