Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006
The Foreign Policy the US Needs
By Stanley Hoffmann
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama
Yale University Press, 226 pp., $25.00
Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
by Stephen M. Walt
Norton, 320 pp., $17.95
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower
by John Brady Kiesling
Potomac, 320 pp., $28.95
During the cold war Americans believed that in order to eliminate risks of nuclear war, a policy of edgy coexistence with the Soviet Union was worth pursuing. Few believed that America should prepare for a military showdown with Moscow. In the debates between doves and hawks, everyone assumed there would be a very long contest with the Communist world.
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