{"product_id":"after-the-apocalypse-americas-role-in-a-world-transformed-american-empire-project","title":"After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed (American Empire Project)","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence on a market economy, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, historian Andrew Bacevich lays down a new approach based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war only as a last resort in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the Apocalypse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Confronting the threats of the future―climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the rise of information technology as a weapon of war―his vision calls for a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security, setting out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ANT Stores","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44816084336826,"sku":"BKDP-0022","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/6952\/2618\/files\/71j7Srodc8L._SL1500.jpg?v=1746551926","url":"https:\/\/checkout.s101.com\/products\/after-the-apocalypse-americas-role-in-a-world-transformed-american-empire-project","provider":"S101","version":"1.0","type":"link"}