{"product_id":"americas-search-for-security-sean-kay-9781442225633","title":"America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Kay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442225637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442225633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Sean Kay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066211758335,"sku":"9781442225633","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_780dd57b-8a6a-4aca-92b9-362619414ae5.jpg?v=1685405944","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/americas-search-for-security-sean-kay-9781442225633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}