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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder Hardcover - 2014

by Bret Stephens


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A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist argues that the resurgence of isolationism in the U.S. is an invitation to global disorder of a kind last seen in the 1930s

Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. 

Pulitzer Prize–winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens rejects this view. As he sees it, retreating from our global responsibilities will ultimately exact a devastating price to our security and prosperity. In the 1930s, it was the weakness and vacillation of the democracies that led to war and genocide. Today the regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Beijing, and Moscow continue to test America’s will. 

Americans have often been tempted to turn our backs on a world that fails to live up to our idealism and doesn’t easily bend. But succumbing to that temptation always leads to tragedy. The mantle of global leadership is a responsibility we must shoulder for the sake of our freedom, our prosperity, and our safety.

America in Retreat is a warning and manifesto by one of America’s foremost foreign-policy thinkers. It will be hotly debated as the latest crises force our leaders to make difficult choices.

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BRET STEPHENS, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is the foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal. He was previously the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post and has written for Foreign Affairs and Commentary, among other publications. He lives in New York City.

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  • Title America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
  • Author Bret Stephens
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Sentinel, New York
  • Date 2014-06-03
  • ISBN 9781591846628 / 1591846625
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Intervention (International law), World politics - 1989-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014022275
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

About the author

BRET STEPHENS, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is the foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal. He was previously the editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post. He was raised in Mexico City, educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics, and lives with his family in New York City.
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