Does America need a foreign policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21 st Century.

Opis książki:

AMERICA AT THE APEX: EMPIRE OR LEADER "At the dawn of the new millennium, the United States is enjoying a preeminence unrivaled by even the greatest empires of the past. Prom weaponry to entrepreneurship, from science to technology, from higher education to popular culture, America exercises an unparalleled ascendancy around the globe. During the last decade of the twentieth century, Americas preponderant position rendered it the indispensable component of intemational stability. It mediated disputes in key trouble spots to the point that, in the Middle East, it had become an integral part of the peace process. So committed was the United States to this role that it almost ritually put itself forward as mediator, occasionally even when it was not invited by all the parties r involved-as in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan in July 1999. The United States considered itself both the source and the guarantor of democratic institutions around the globe, increasingly setting itself up as the judge of the faimess of foreign elections and appłying economic sanctions or other pressures if its criteria were not met. "... In the Balkans, the United States is performing essentially the same functions as did the Austrian and Ottoman empires at the tum of the last century, of keeping the peace by establishing protectorates interposed between warring ethnic groups. It dominates the intemational financial system by providing the single largest pool of investment capital, the most attractive haven for investors, and the largest market for foreign exports. American popular culture sets standards of taste around the worid even as it provides the occasional flash point for national resentments. ... "Ironically, Americas preeminence is often treated with indifference by its own people." -from Henry Kissingers Does America Need a Foreign Policy

Książka "Does America need a foreign policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21 st Century." - Henry Kissinger - oprawa twarda - Wydawnictwo Simon&Schuster.