A world in disarray : American foreign policy and the crisis of the old order / Richard Haass.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press , 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xii, 339 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0399562362
- 9780399562365
- International relations
- World politics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
- Diplomatic relations
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- International relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
- World politics
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
- United States
- 327.73009/049 23
- E840 .H323 2017
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A World in Disarray is a wise and visionary examination of the current world by Richard Haass, the president of the US Council on Foreign Relations. It is rich in history, examining how we got where we are today, and what needs doing to make things better. Haass shows that the world cannot have stability or prosperity without the United States, but that the United States cannot be a force for global stability and prosperity without its politicians and citizens reaching a new understanding.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From war through world war -- Cold War -- The other order -- The post-Cold War world -- A global gap -- Regional realities -- Pieces of process -- What is to be done? -- Thwarting Thucydides -- World order 2.0 -- Regional responses -- A country in disarray.
The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. The United States remains the world's strongest country, but American foreign policy has at times made matters worse, both by what the United States has done and by what it has failed to do. Haass explains that the election of Donald Trump and the unexpected vote for Brexit signals that many in modern democracies reject important aspects of globalization, including borders open to trade and immigrants. He argues for an updated global operating system that reflects the reality that power is widely distributed and that borders count for less.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I
- 1 From War Through World War (p. 17)
- 2 Cold War (p. 37)
- 3 The Other Order (p. 55)
- Part II
- 4 The Post-Cold War World (p. 77)
- 5 A Global Gap (p. 103)
- 6 Regional Realities (p. 151)
- 7 Pieces of Process (p. 195)
- Part III
- 8 What Is to Be Done? (p. 209)
- 9 Thwarting Thucydides (p. 215)
- 10 World Order 2.0 (p. 225)
- 11 Regional Responses (p. 257)
- 12 A Country in Disarray (p. 287)
- Acknowledgments (p. 309)
- Notes (p. 313)
- Index (p. 331)
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Library Journal Review
Haass (president of the Council on Foreign Relations), who has served in various U.S. diplomatic posts, here looks at the current disarray in the world "order" and shares his ideas on how the United States should act going forward. Reading the foreword and introduction to his own work, Haass is an experienced though not polished speaker. Dan Woren reads the main portion quite well. His baritone is pleasant, and he enunciates well. His reading is very expressive, albeit subtly, and his pacing is deliberate and leisurely, giving the overall impression of a conversational lecture. VERDICT Libraries with a demand for works about international relations and world affairs should consider. ["This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary U.S. foreign policy and the perspective of the mainline Republican foreign policy establishment": LJ 1/17 review of the Penguin hc.]--Michael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll. Lib., -Lynchburg © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
This foreign policy overview from Haass (Foreign Policy Begins at Home), president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will draw notice, but little surprise, from policymakers and the international community. Haass maintains that the world that followed WWII has run its course; great-power rivalries are returning, and Europe is newly unstable. With Brexit, which starts Haass's study, the globalism and limited national sovereignty he has long endorsed seem to be in decline. The first half of the book surveys the world of the early 21st century, which Haass regards as one where borders count for less. The second lays out a nebulous, glibly labeled "World Order 2.0," followed by rapid-fire policy prescriptions. Haass lists many topics of topical interest, though a few paragraphs apiece on climate change, cyberspace, and other widely publicized concerns are not enough. Informed but derivative, Haass's self-declared centrism tends toward platitudes; he even invokes Goldilocks as "the ultimate centrist." He sidesteps rising nationalism and religious conflicts but is thoughtful about U.S. economic policies, warning convincingly of entitlement and debt burdens corroding the dollar. Haass's sensible policy prescriptions will not disturb prevailing consensus in the international community, nor are they meant to. His volume adds up to well-crafted conventional wisdom from the foreign-policy establishment. Agent: Andrew Wylie, Wylie Agency. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Kirkus Book Review
A public policy insider mines the nuances of states sovereignty and legitimacy in an increasingly unstable world.Divided into three parts, delineating something of a past, present, and future approach, this systematic work by Council on Foreign Relations president Haass (Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order, 2013, etc.) finds that the bland optimism maintained throughout the Cold War due to the grip of atomic deterrence has been unloosed by new structural and economic forces. For nations big or small, good or bad, these forces increasingly involve internal breakdowns requiring humanitarian intervention and occasionally lead to terrorism. In the first part, the author reaches back to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) to show how the sovereignty of states was first acknowledged and respected; that order was based on a balance of power involving independent states that do not interfere with one anothers internal business. Subsequently, the Congress of Vienna helped to determine the sovereignty of states in the 19th century. While the world wars saw the breakdown of the Westphalian orderin the case of World War I, it was accidental and unintended, a failure of deterrence and of diplomacythe era since 1945 has been transformational, with the former villains Germany and Japan now models of regime change. Moving from the Cold War to the present sense of disorder, rife with regional disputes, Haass sees Iraqs invasion of Kuwait and the American response as the beginning of troubling new developments (although the author applauds U.S. activism). The push back against Iraq and other trouble spots, where internal brutality prompted international intervention on humanitarian grounds, drove the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by the United Nations in 2005. The author concludes his knowledgeable but overlong narrative with some predictions for the futuree.g., mounting debt will hasten the demise of the dollar as the worlds reserve currency. A highly learned but sometimes-ponderous survey that will appeal to policy wonks. For most readers, a long-form essay would have sufficed. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.There are no comments on this title.