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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 After the Soviet Union collapsed, America could have taken a well-earned victory lap and reconsidered its expansive grand strategy. But instead, they expanded their global commitments and continued to shape events around the world.
#2 The United States was not a status quo power. Having won the Cold War, American leaders set out to create a liberal world order through the active use of U. S. power. However, this did not make the United States safer, stronger, or more popular.
#3 When the Cold War ended, the United States was in a position of global primacy unlike any other since the Roman Empire. It had the world’s largest and most advanced economy, and it produced roughly 25 percent of the world’s goods and services.
#4 The strategic situation was not entirely rosy, of course, but the dangers that concerned U. S. leaders after the Cold War were far less dangerous than the threats the United States had faced in the past.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669399063
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Stephen M. Walt's The Hell of Good Intentions
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

After the Soviet Union collapsed, America could have taken a well-earned victory lap and reconsidered its expansive grand strategy. But instead, they expanded their global commitments and continued to shape events around the world.

#2

The United States was not a status quo power. Having won the Cold War, American leaders set out to create a liberal world order through the active use of U. S. power. However, this did not make the United States safer, stronger, or more popular.

#3

When the Cold War ended, the United States was in a position of global primacy unlike any other since the Roman Empire. It had the world’s largest and most advanced economy, and it produced roughly 25 percent of the world’s goods and services.

#4

The strategic situation was not entirely rosy, of course, but the dangers that concerned U. S. leaders after the Cold War were far less dangerous than the threats the United States had faced in the past.

#5

In the 1990s, the tides of history appeared to be flowing America’s way. victory in the Cold War seemed to be a striking vindication of America’s core ideals of individual liberty, free elections, and open markets. The spread of liberal norms and institutions seemed to be closely linked to hopes for significant progress in human rights.

#6

However, these same pundits saw the United States as the linchpin of this new economic order. The U. S. economy performed well during the 1990s, and American power was the foundation on which globalization supposedly rested.

#7

After the first Gulf War, the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference made a promising start toward resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Then, in 1993, the Oslo Accords brought new hope that the elusive final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians might finally become a reality.

#8

The United States had long sought to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons, and had labored to create the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The country seemed to be in an excellent position to keep the lid on it.

#9

The United States was in the catbird seat after the Cold War. It was richer and stronger than any other major power, and it was allied with most of them. It faced no peer competitors or existential dangers.

#10

The United States is in worse shape today than it was in 1992 in nearly every aspect of foreign policy. The unipolar moment was surprisingly brief, and the strategic environment has deteriorated sharply.

#11

When the unipolar era began, the United States was the sole great power. Russia and China were both relatively weak, and Washington’s attention was focused primarily on a set of even weaker rogue states. Today, Russia and China are stronger than they were, and their relations with America have deteriorated.

#12

Relations between the United States and Russia have become increasingly strained as Russia has grown stronger, and as China has grown more confident and ambitious.

#13

The Bush and Obama administrations tried to balance China, but China began to develop its own set of international institutions. In 2016, it was clear that the world’s two most powerful countries were headed for an intense security competition.

#14

The United States has attempted to tackle the supposed threat of rogue states throughout the past two decades, but all of these efforts have failed. Instead, the states that the United States has successfully overthrown - Ba’athist Iraq, the Afghan Taliban, and Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya - ended up as failed states in the aftermath of U. S. intervention.

#15

By 2016, the armed forces’ reputation for competence and military supremacy had eroded. The United States still possessed the world’s most capable military forces, but they no longer seemed unstoppable.

#16

The mismatch between America’s commitments and its military capabilities was becoming more and more apparent by 2016, as the country was still fighting in Afghanistan, still waging war against ISIS in Iraq, and still reinforcing vulnerable NATO allies in Eastern Europe.

#17

The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all made democracy promotion a central goal of American foreign policy, and they were confident that American power could reinforce a powerful secular trend that would lead to democracy. But efforts to promote democracy have gone into reverse in recent years.

#18

Around the world, liberal institutions are eroding. Poland and Hungary have seen liberal institutions erode, and Turkey’s ruling AKP Party has sharply curtailed press freedoms and imprisoned thousands of suspected opponents.

#19

The antidemocratic backlash also hit the philanthropic foundations and nongovernmental organizations that were working to strengthen democracy and promote human rights around the world.

#20

Globalization, the supposed benefits of which were felt by the middle class and poor in the West, also did not deliver on its promises. Instead, it created new problems and strains within key institutions, such as the eurozone.

#21

The liberal vision of a globally open and economically democratic world did not materialize as expected. Instead, many countries opposed immigration, and the rise of right-wing nationalist movements was a result.

#22

The unipolar era began when America’s leaders believed they could address and eventually solve a wide array of global problems. However, by 2016, the two-state solution was further away than ever, and the three presidents had failed to make any progress toward it.

#23

Despite some successes, the US’s efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and terrorism have been largely unsuccessful. The Clinton administration tried to deter and preempt attacks on American facilities and personnel, but these attempts were largely unsuccessful.

#24

As the virus spread, the war on terror kept expanding and new enemies kept popping up. The problem was that there was no shortage of new extremists to replace those whom the United States had killed or captured.

#25

The war on terror has been a costly failure. It has created instability in many countries, and has even led to the spread of terrorism.

#26

The United States has been responsible for many positive developments in recent years, but it has also been responsible for the negative developments described above. America’s outsize responsibility for today’s problems is hard to deny.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The United States had a grand strategy of liberal hegemony: an ambitious effort to use American power to reshape the world according to U. S. preferences and political values. However, this proved to be an elusive goal.

#2

The grand strategy of liberal hegemony seeks to expand and deepen a liberal world order under the benevolent leadership of the United States. It believes that America must remain much more powerful than any other country, and it should use its position of primacy to defend, spread, and deepen liberal values around the world.

#3