The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat

ISBN: 0345802578

Author: Nasr, Vali

Condition: New

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearForcefully persuasive, The Dispensable Nation is a game changer for America as it charts a course in the Muslim world, Asia, and beyond. Vali Nasr shows how the Obama administration missed its chance to improve U.S. relations with the Middle East by continuing to pursue its predecessors questionable strategies there. Nasr takes readers behind the scenes at the State Department and reveals how the specter of terrorism and the new administrations fear of political backlash crippled diplomatic efforts to boost Americas foundering credibility with world leaders. Meanwhile, the true economic threats, China and Russia, were quietly expanding their influence in the region. Nasr argues that, as a result of the U.S.s flawed strategy, a second Arab Spring is brewing-not a hopeful clamor for democracy but rage at the United States for its foreign policy of drones and assassinations.