America's fatal leap : 1991-2016 /
"Informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history, America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Verso,
2025.
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| Summary: | "Informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history, America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in the world. But he wrote scathingly about the hubris and moral failings of the War on Terror, warning of damaging long-range effects on the international system. Schroeder compared 9/11 to the assassination in Sarajevo that sparked the First World War, insisting that a great power should never give terrorists the war they want. He warrned with extraordinary prescience -- before the United States launched its attack on the Taliban -- of the 'risks of victory' in Afghanistan, and characterized the war in Iraq as a failed bid for informal empire. America's Fatal Leap collects Schroeder's remarkable interventions on American adventurism in the Middle East, beginning with the 1991 Gulf War."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 310 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781804295762 1804295760 |