Review
The Observer (UK)[HTML_REMOVED], August 8, 2010
Cool and concise It isn't often that you see foreign policy, healthcare and pensions discussed in the same breath, but it makes you sit up when you do.
Financial Times, August 8, 2010
Mr Mandelbaum has been preaching the gospel of petrol taxes for a long time, and does so persuasively The author is always reasonable and clear.
Sunday Times (UK), August 8, 2010
Mandelbaum is persuasive in defining the structural problems of the American economy, and the consequences.
Basil & Spice, August 17, 2010
Mandelbaum writes in... clear, easy-to-comprehend prose. I recommend The Frugal Superpower without reservation and I hope that President Barack Obama and his Cabinet and advisors and Congress will follow the sensible policies advocated by its author.
Pajamas Media, August 13, 2010
My friend Michael Mandelbaum has a new book out this month with the timely title and theme The Frugal Superpower. Its also short, as if Michael were reminding us this is not a good moment to overspend on excess paper in our cash-strapped world. As an advocate of the short book in general (with some obvious exceptions), I call that a win-win.
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, September 4, 2010
Very timely
_Harvard Magazine_
Its easy to be powerful (if not loved) when rich. But what happens when the chief guarantor of world security becomes less so? The author, of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, sees a more modest U.S. profile, and less imported oil.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, December 13, 2010
In explaining the connection between recent domestic policy developments and U.S. foreign policy, the author provides an uncomplicated foundation for understanding the direct line between politics and economics.
Washington_ Diplomat_, February, 2011
The book, released in August 2010, is timely not only because of lingering uncertainties surrounding the supposed economic recovery, but also because of the underlying, long-term issues it addresses. Mandelbaum makes a strong, clear case that Americas unrestrained foreign policy will crack under the weight of crippling deficits fueled by the huge costs of the financial crash and the nations entitlement programs.
Modern Judaism, February, 2011
An excellentaccount of a country whose historic poverty, exacerbated by the Vietnam War, remains remarkably unchanged.
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Vingtieme Siecle_, January 20, 2011
This concise and elegant history of Commentary is a good introduction for those looking to understand the influence and role of the monthly in the intellectual wars of the post-WWII United States.
Product Description
In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the United States did in the world. Now that will change. The country's soaring deficits, fueled by the huge costs of the financial crash and of its entitlement programsSocial Security and Medicarewill compel a more modest American international presence.
In assessing the consequences of this new, less expensive foreign policy, Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy experts, describes the policies the United States will have to discontinue, assesses the potential threats from China, Russia, and Iran, and recommends a new policy, centered on a reduction in the nation's dependence on foreign oil, which can do for America and the world in the twenty-first century what the containment of the Soviet Union did in the twentieth.
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