A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey D. Sachs

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges.

In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity—not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: U.S. Exceptionalism in a Changing World......Page 20
1. From Exceptionalism to Globalism......Page 24
2. Exceptionalism as the Civic Religion
......Page 36
3. The Era of Global Convergence
......Page 58
4. Eurasia on the Rise, America on the Sidelines
......Page 70
5. Russia-U.S. Relations in the Changing World Order......Page 80
Part II: America’s Wars
......Page 92
6. American Imperialism and “Wars of Choice”
......Page 96
7. Contradictory Promises and a Century of Conflict in the Middle East
......Page 108
8. North Korea and the Doomsday Clock
......Page 118
9. Trump's National Security Strategy......Page 130
Part III: U.S. Foreign Economic Statecraft......Page 142
10. The Economic Balance Sheet on “America First”......Page 146
11. Foreign Policy Populism......Page 152
12. Economic War with China......Page 160
13. Will Trump Hand China the Technological Lead?......Page 166
14. Toward a World Economy of Regions
......Page 174
Part IV: Renewing American Diplomacy......Page 184
15. From Diplomatic Leader to Rogue Nation......Page 186
16. The Ethics and Practicalities of Foreign Aid
......Page 200
17. Managing Migration and Immigration
......Page 210
18. Achieving Sustainable Development
......Page 222
19. A New Foreign Policy for American Security and Well-Being......Page 230
Notes......Page 238
References
......Page 246
Index
......Page 252