![]() As America grapples with its new role as one power among many-rather than as the “indispensable nation” that sees “further into the future”-Kennan’s perceptive analysis of the past is all the more relevant. Mearsheimer, one of America’s leading political realists, provides new understandings of Kennan’s work and explores its continued resonance. ![]() In this expanded anniversary edition, a substantial new introduction by John J. ![]() Keenly aware of the dangers of military intervention and the negative effects of domestic politics on foreign policy, Kennan identifies troubling inconsistencies in the areas between actions and ideals-even when the strategies in question turned out to be decided successes. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over into self-righteousness, whose ambitions conflict with power realities, whose judgmentalism precludes the interests of other states, and whose domestic politics frequently prevent prudent policies and result in overstretch. ![]() Kennan’s American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. ![]() These lectures on American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century are “a classic foreign policy text” ( Washington Post Book World).įor more than sixty years, George F. ![]()
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