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Foreign Policy Begins at Home

By: Richard Haass
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The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’ Foreign Policy Begins at Home.

A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges. But U.S. national security depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second-class schools, and outdated immigration system.

Foreign Policy Begins at Home describes a 21st century in which power is widely diffused. Globalization, revolutionary technologies, and the rise and decline of new and old powers have created a "nonpolar" world of American primacy but not domination. So far, it has been a relatively forgiving world, with no great rival threatening America directly. How long this strategic respite lasts, according to Haass, will depend largely on whether the United States puts its own house in order.

Haass argues for a new American foreign policy: Restoration. At home, the new doctrine would have the country concentrate on restoring the economic foundations of American power. Overseas, the U.S. would stop trying to remake the Middle East with military force, instead emphasizing maintaining the balance of power in Asia, promoting economic integration and energy self-sufficiency in North America, and working to promote collective responses to global challenges.

Haass rejects both isolationism and the notion of American decline. But he argues the United States is underperforming at home and overreaching abroad. Foreign Policy Begins at Home lays out a compelling vision for restoring America’s power, influence, and ability to lead the world.

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This book provides context for our present situation. Clearly we have lost sight of the challenges before us. They are lost in morass of personal politics.

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This is a chronological,systematic teaching on the Foreign policy of the USA by a seasoned American diplomat. It is objective, dispassionate lucid, and also gives an insider reading of major foreign policy actions of the USA both historical and real policy points of view.

It is broad spectrum as it covers the pre -independence British colonial US period up till Barack Obama’s presidency, about 2008-2016
I recommend it to professional,diplomats, and researchers and learners of USA foreign policy.

A chronological,systematic teaching on the Foreign policy of the USA by a diplomat

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