America’s Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author’s unsurpassed command of modern history. 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 scathing op-eds for the National Interest and the American Conservative 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 a war they wanted. He wrote with extraordinary prescience – months before the US launched its attack on the Taliban – of the ‘risks of victory’ in Afghanistan, characterised the war in Iraq as a failed bid for informal empire, and called for ‘disimperialism’ in the Middle East.
America’s Fatal Leap collects Schroeder’s remarkable interventions on America’s adventurism in the Middle East, from the 1991 Gulf War to the Surge of 2007. It includes an Introduction by Perry Anderson, author of
US Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers and
Ever Closer Union?
Circa l’autore
Paul W. Schroeder is the author of, among other things, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe. He taught history and political science at the University of Illinois for many years and died in 2020 at the age of ninety-three.
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