Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke argue that President George W. Bush president was persuaded to abandon his campaign pledges and the successful consensus-driven, bipartisan diplomacy that managed the lethal Soviet threat over the past half century, and adopt a neo-conservative foreign policy emphasizing military confrontation and ‘nation-building’. America Alone outlines the costs in terms of economic damage, distortion of priorities, rising anti-Americanism, encroachment on civil liberties, domestic political polarization and reduced security. [Cambridge University Press]

Cambridge University Press, 382 pages
06/21/2004
$28.00

ISBN: 0521838347

Nonfiction
Current Events & Politics

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