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Thomas Wright is a senior fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy and Director of the Center for the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution.
Wright has a BA and MA from University College Dublin, an M Phil in international studies from Cambridge University, and a PhD in government from Georgetown University.
It is difficult to say who might find this work of interest. Its virtue is that in the field of International Relations his composition is rich in the jargon of the field and he balances his basic thesis against the work of other scholars so it takes on the qualities of a text book with rich references to pursue.
But its shortcoming for this reviewer is that it never departs from the premise that the U.S.A. is the Nucleus of the Universe and American ‘National Interest’ are the overriding world’s promise without specifying what those interests are and who they serve in the three regions of his concern, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East. He leaves them in the vague categories of Liberal, Democratic, and Inclusive at a time when he does note that those three categories are under stress’ In short he is holding to a defense that Pax Americana was good and must continue when America’s role may be slipping and in search of content. This rises to the level of ideology or more simply Conventional Thoughts by an Insider; of interest to those who concur and few others.
An alternative would be that Pax Americana has created chaos and has little to show except the survival of alliances that themselves are under intense stress; as many other authors engage: That list would be long. A good and more insightful follow up would be Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond by Gideon Rachman. From reviews it sounds like Haass’ latest book, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, run parallel to Wright’s work but perhaps a bit more Hawkish.
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (May 23, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300223285
- ISBN-13: 978-0300223286
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Customer Reviews: 9 customer reviews
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