{"product_id":"americas-fatal-leap-by-paul-w-schroeder-9781836745556","title":"America's Fatal Leap","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/em\u003e 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. However, he wrote scathing op-eds for the \u003cem\u003eNational Interest\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Conservative\u003c\/em\u003e about the hubris and moral failings of the War on Terror, warning of damaging long-range effects on the international system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSchroeder 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eUS Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEver Closer Union?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240614211820,"sku":"9781836745556","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781836745556-america-s-fatal-leap-1.jpg?v=1787921609","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/americas-fatal-leap-by-paul-w-schroeder-9781836745556","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}