Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (Hardback)
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Short Description for Choice The foreign policy expert offers an assessment of recent American foreign policy, arguing for a more sophisticated posture in the world that positions America as a supporter of reform and justice in the world.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 02 March 2004
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: International Relations
- ISBN 13: 9780465008001 ISBN 10: 0465008003
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A balanced yet uncompromisingly clear assessment of the issues and dilemmas facing imperial America, by our most distinguished elder statesman of foreign policy. The overwhelming reality of our time is this: In the opening years of the 21st century, the United States finds itself not only the most powerful nation on earth but the most powerful nation that has ever existed. Given the contradictory roles America plays in the world, we are fated to be the catalyst for either a new global community or for global chaos. If we don't lead, Zbigniew Brzezinski contends, rather than merely dominate by force, we could face worldwide hostility much like the regional hostility now confronting Israel.Brzezinski argues for a more complex and sophisticated view of our global role than much of our media and political leadership are willing to entertain. We are the world's policeman, but we have to be seen as a fair one. We are entitled to a higher level of security than other nations (because we assume greater risks), but we are also the proponent of essential freedoms. We are uniquely powerful, but our homeland is uniquely -and chronically-vulnerable. "Globalization" precludes immunity for even t
