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A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
The purpose of US foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order―these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters.
In a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevich―founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy―lays down a new approach―one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future―accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war―his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security.
Crucial and provocative, After the Apocalypse sets out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world.
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“Few critics [of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars] have been more penetrating than Andrew Bacevich…One can only hope that Bacevich is read and understood by a generation young enough to see through and reject those dismal elites.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Bacevich…excoriates elected officials for a shortsightedness based on both non-reflection and willful self-interest in dispensing blatant lies, failed solutions, and soothing nostrums. ”
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“Links the US government’s disastrous response to Covid-19 to faulty national security policies built on the myth of American exceptionalism.”
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“The vocal historian and foreign policy expert revisits the past to offer suggestions for current and future U.S. policymakers…with a reputation for knowledgeable, incisive, and provocative readings of history.”
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“His answer to the big question: why is the most powerful nation on earth so ill-prepared to deal with the world it faces?”
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“A timely, angry, deeply necessary book about the habits of mind that have damaged America and how to change them.”
— Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism
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About Andrew J. Bacevich
Andrew J. Bacevich is the author of several acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestseller The Limits of Power. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and the American Conservative, among other publications. He served in the United States Army for twenty-three years and is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. He is founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy.