Waterstones The Great Delusion
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Description: A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony | ??the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended | ??is doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018' Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force." | ?? Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo's World It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build international institutions. The policy of remaking the world in America's image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has become a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home. In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony | ??the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended | ??is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad. The Great Delusion is a lucid and compelling work of the first importance for scholars, policymakers, and everyone interested in the future of American foreign policy.
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Author: Ricky
Rating: 5
Review: John Mearsheimer presents an alternative world view to that of Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ thesis that has dominated Western politics since 1989. Fukuyama’s vision was based on a unipolar world when the US emerged as the only world power following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The wisdom of the last 30 years has been to export Liberal Hegemony to the rest of the world, promote liberal democracy and Human Rights and ignore the rise in Nationalism and Realism (balance of power politics). Mearsheimer argues that with the rise of China and Russia, the world is now not unipolar but the liberal elites have been slow to catch up to that fact. Liberal Hegemony he says cannot succeed in a bipolar or multipolar world. He also says that liberal policies abroad lead to illiberal policies at home. I found this book riveting since it explains the delusional mindset of liberal elites and their quest for a world government based on Liberal values. Given the rise of Russia as a nuclear power and the inability of the West to contain it, it undermines Fukuyama’s assertion that there will no longer be wars and that mankind’s greatest problem might be boredom. Mearsheimer takes us back to the role of Realism or Realpolitik or peace through strength. In having downplayed the role of Nationalism or Populism, the Liberal mindset has been caught up in a delusion of ‘Love, Peace and Dope’.
Author: Edge 54
Rating: 2
Review: A most disappointing book. The analysis is impeccable but far too narrow in attributing the causes of the sorry mess which constitutes the foreign policy of the United States. Nor does it identify the threat posed by a rising China despite it being implicit in the analysis. No exploration of the wide background of pressure groups from the defense industries to the Jewish lobby and the expelled losers resident in The US from civil wars in places like Cuba Iran and Ukraine or disgruntled multinationals in faraway places which infest the voting in Congress. China ruled by hugely competent elite in impressive depth has adopted a policy which is potentially lethal to American hegemony. They say clearly: this is China,( Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and the South China Sea ) everywhere else is none of our business. Moreover they are in the business of doing business in a win win environment. This is hugely attractive to countries as varied as Greece Cambodia Nepal and Ethiopia and Pakistan. There is therefore a seminal work to be written on the subject but this is not it.
