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Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in America s Foreign and Defense Policy Hardcover – November 1, 2000

by Robert Kagan (Editor), William Kristol (Editor)
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This original collection offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Rueel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000.Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay.
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  1. Print length
    392 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Encounter Books
  4. Publication date
    November 1, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    6.26 x 1.41 x 9.32 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1893554139
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1893554139
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  • Ep Smiff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Regarding the "swine" you refer to...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2005
    The last reviewer's idea that America should distance itself from "lesser cultures" is that of a person who clearly knows very little about American culture. Look, the book is crap in its ideology, but it's profound in its influence on the Bush administration's foreign policy. The wacko concept of global domination that is so prevalent in the mission of the "Project for a New American Century" makes about as much sense as the last reviewer would, were he foolishly given the opportunity to publish something beyond an Amazon.com review. However, you ought to read the book, and you really ought to think about it. Especially now, while the country is coming around to the idea that maybe, just maybe, interest in Iraqi and Irani regime change has been around far longer than W has been president. Anyway, I suggest you get out of your confused and dark little study, sir, and try to see the world around you before you die. If America is a precious jewel, you are actively tarnishing it.
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  • Richard Clark
    1.0 out of 5 stars Ethnocentrism at its worst!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2009
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    As I sit here Saturday morning, October 3, 2009, I find it interesting to compare the eight reviews that, in my opinion, are within themselves a fascinating display of history. Of the four five-star reviews, half were written before 9/11. But all of the three one-star reviews (soon to become four), were written after 9/11. The single four-star review was written after 9/11, but it strikes me that, according to his remarks, the author should have given it one star.

    The authors of these reviews have probably long-forgotten what they wrote, but it would be interesting to see to what extent they may have altered their present-day thinking.

    William Kristol chaired the P-NAC effort that requested a "rebuilding" of United States armed forces. His committee seemed to think we would need another "Pearl Harbor" to make it happen. Now that 9/11 has fulfilled that hope, we are currently in the position of reviewing their dream and assessing the outcome.

    In their own neo-con way, Kagan and Kristol are great American patriots. But they are poor anthropologists. Their actions exemplify the irrational ethnocentrism that destroys any attempt to assess impartially what has happened since the horrific day that had been so proudly called "Shock and Awe." In their twisted minds, this was no example of terrorism. It was American "morality" at work, liberating oppressed Iraqis while introducing them to "democracy" and "freedom" or what George W. Bush called "the new order."

    And now, with President Obama expressing a desire to abolish nuclear weapons the world over, would they consider him nothing more than a Wilsonian idealist, if not a present danger?

    This book is a fine example of aggressive ignorance on the march. Every historian should own a copy. As time unfolds with its gift of heightened objectivity, they will learn to shelve "Present Dangers" next to "Mein Kampf."
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  • Alan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read for people intersted in national security policy
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2002
    Whether you agree with the American foreign and defense policy of the Bush administration or not, this book is essential reading for those interested in the topic. It's a series of essays on different foreign and defense policy issues written by people who are highly influential in the Bush administration, including Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams and Paul Wolfowitz.
    The central thesis seems to be that the US is (or maybe WAS immediately after the Cold War) at an unprecedented position of influence and power over the world, and should use it to secure the safety of the whole world before those who wish to threaten the free world acquire the means to do so. The book was written at the end of the Clinton administration, but many parts of the book are extremely prophetic including the need to confront the members of the "Axis of Evil" about their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the palestinian uprising against the stalled peace process which had not yet begun when the book was written. Like I said, even if you're not in agreement with Bush administration policy, you'll learn what some of the influential minds are thinking (and why their right!).
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  • Joan Livingston
    1.0 out of 5 stars Review of listing--Primer for '00 by neocons, pub 2014 too? -ate?
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019
    Why is this tract still around? I'm simply reviewing reviews of *Kagan*--whom Kindle writers call a "leading scholar of [N] American foreign policy"--now an architect of the New Cold War; & find this "warning" by two long-time hawks (K & KRISTOL) about alleged adversaries, including IRAQ, whose illegal invasion of 2003 (3rd US war on: "Desert Storm," Highway of Death; Clinton's "Desert Fox," sanctions) these two Likqudnik neocons both championed (note their other PNAC "sources"--Perle, Wolfowitz, &Iran-contra criminal Abrams). Well, mission accomplished, boys, Iraq was destroyed again, against the will of the US public and most of the planet. (W said "with us or against us," and at the UN, even NATO/Europe chose "against.")
    In 2000, the apparent first publication date, no one talked about a "terrorist threat." Was this paranoid pro-war book reissued many times? Amazon should reconsider which books it censors; this book is one.
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  • Dr. Henry Lloyd
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth buying or reading
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2004
    While I disagree with much of the content of this book, that is not why you shouldn't buy this book. The reason not to buy is that this book is greatly out-dated. It was from before 9-11, and the neo-con perspective and focus on the world is now quite different.
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  • A. Mather
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired and informative
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2016
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    Perhaps the single most important book a statesman should read about implementing an effective security policy, especially as regards America's posture. The sad thing is that while this book is clear sighted and eloquent, it was thinkers such as these, or people inspired by thinkers such as these, who took us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, a war that fourteen years later is no closer to a resolution.
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  • mtanaka7
    3.0 out of 5 stars 「ネオコン」の全貌を理解する一助
    Reviewed in Japan on December 22, 2003
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    本書の編著者であるロバート・ケーガンとウィリアム・クリストルは、いわゆる「ネオコン第２世代」の代表的人物であり、その拠点のひとつである「アメリカの新世紀プロジェクト(PNAC)」と称する「シンクタンク」を主宰している（ウィリアム・クリストルは、あの元祖「ネオコン」アービング・クリストルの息子である）。「ネオコン」の著作としては、何といっても、ケーガンの、Of Paradise and Power（『ネオコンの論理』）が有名であるが、本書はいわば「ネオコン」揃い踏みの論文集であり、ウォルフォヴィッツ、パール、エイブラムスなど、ブッシュ政権を牛耳っている面々はほとんど全て、寄稿している。その結果、「ならず者国家」論、ミサイル迎撃システム、「２正面作戦」、「民主主義」のバラマキなどなど、「ブッシュ・ドクトリン」の原型を見て取ることができる。「ネオコン」の思考様式を知るための資料としては、非常に価値があるのではないか。
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