America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism by Kay, Sean

America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442225633)

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America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism by Kay, Sean

America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

$55.00
America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism by Kay, Sean

America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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This book details the ways in which America's ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint.

In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America's rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots, analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes can befall America abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied, unclear, and fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an unquestionable world power.

This book also focuses on America's recent "pivot" to Asia, and efforts to restore a realist balance abroad and at home in the second Obama administration, concluding with a look at what the future of American power will look like in a rapidly evolving world in need of newer, more modernized, and adaptable forms of leadership. Tracing the tension between idealism and realism, Kay provides a detailed explanation of the rise of a post-Cold War idealist consensus in Washington, D.C.--and shows how that culminated in a return to realism in both the 2013 debates over intervention in Syria and the 2014 crisis with Russia.


Author: Sean Kay
ISBN-10: 1442225637
ISBN-13: 9781442225633
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2014
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.79d
By Sean Kay
By Sean Kay
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Sean Kay is Robson Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University where he is also director of the Arneson Institute for Practical Politics and Chair of the International Studies Program. He is also an associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University and a fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, D.C. Kay has previously worked at the Institute for National Strategic Studies in the U.S. Department of Defense and as visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College. He has published widely on American foreign and defense policy and international security issues, is frequently quoted in major national and international news sources, and is a co-editor of two books. His previous books include Celtic Revival: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland, Global Security in the Twenty-first Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace, and NATO and the Future of European Security

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