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Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era de Michael Mandelbaum

Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

Autor Michael Mandelbaum
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2017

Notăm cu interes acest studiu monografic semnat de Michael Mandelbaum, care oferă o perspectivă critică și riguroasă asupra ultimelor trei decenii de diplomație americană. Mission Failure pornește de la premisa că anul 1991 a marcat o ruptură fundamentală: pentru prima dată, Statele Unite au început să își folosească puterea militară nu pentru a contracara amenințări existențiale, ci pentru a remodela structurile socio-politice ale altor națiuni. Autorul urmărește acest fir narativ de la stabilirea zonei de protecție pentru kurzi în Irak, trecând prin intervențiile din Somalia și Kosovo, până la eforturile de reconstrucție instituțională din Afganistan. Reținem argumentul central al volumului: eșecul acestor misiuni nu a fost accidental, ci structural. Mandelbaum demonstrează că, deși SUA excelează în proiecția forței militare, capacitatea de a exporta instituții occidentale în culturi radical diferite este extrem de limitată. Stilul este analitic și lipsit de eufemisme, oferind o evaluare onestă a limitelor puterii unei superputeri. Ca alternativă la America's Wars de Thomas H. Henriksen pentru cursurile de relații internaționale, Mission Failure aduce avantajul unei interpretări axate pe ideologie și pe discordanța dintre obiectivele politice și realitățile sociologice locale. În contextul operei sale, această carte completează viziunea din The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, unde autorul explora stabilitatea globală, și se distanțează de abordarea din That Used to Be Us prin concentrarea strictă pe dimensiunea externă a puterii americane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190692247
ISBN-10: 0190692243
Pagini: 504
Dimensiuni: 226 x 147 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare studenților la științe politice și profesioniștilor din domeniul relațiilor internaționale care doresc să înțeleagă de ce „exportul de democrație” a întâmpinat obstacole majore. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică documentată asupra modului în care bunele intenții umanitare pot duce la blocaje diplomatice și militare atunci când ignoră specificul cultural al regiunilor vizate.

Despre autor

Michael Mandelbaum este profesor emerit de politica externă americană la Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), fiind una dintre vocile de referință în mediul academic din Washington. Cu o carieră didactică ce include universități de prestigiu precum Harvard, Columbia și Academia Navală a SUA, Mandelbaum îmbină rigoarea academică cu o înțelegere profundă a mecanismelor de decizie politică. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe istoria diplomatică și pe rolul Statelor Unite în ordinea globală contemporană, teme explorate pe larg în numeroasele sale volume publicate la edituri universitare de top.

Descriere

The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.In the decades before the Cold War ended the United States, like virtually every other country throughout history, used its military power to defend against threats to important American international interests or to the American homeland itself. When the Cold War concluded, however, it embarked on military interventions in places where American interests were not at stake. Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo had no strategic or economic importance for the United States, which intervened in all of them for purely humanitarian reasons. Each such intervention led to efforts to transform the local political and economic systems. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, turned into similar missions of transformation. None of them achieved its aims.Mission Failure describes and explains how such missions came to be central to America's post-Cold War foreign policy, even in relations with China and Russia in the early 1990s and in American diplomacy in the Middle East, and how they all failed. Mandelbaum shows how American efforts to bring peace, national unity, democracy, and free-market economies to poor, disorderly countries ran afoul of ethnic and sectarian loyalties and hatreds and foundered as well on the absence of the historical experiences and political habits, skills, and values that Western institutions require.The history of American foreign policy in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is, he writes, "the story of good, sometimes noble, and thoroughly American intentions coming up against the deeply embedded, often harsh, and profoundly un-American realities of places far from the United States. In this encounter the realities prevailed."

Recenzii

The story is fascinating. Also, since one knows the conclusion, one has to ask whether that conclusion is fair and then what it means for future policy over the next few decades. Consequently, being able to critique a well-written analysis such as this is constantly fun and interesting for anyone interested in contemplating foreign policy decision making. Even though one may not agree with Mandelbaum every step of the way, he is objective in his overview and offers outstanding analysis in every chapter.
[Mission Failure is] going to be one of the most talked about foreign policy books of the year...a must-read." - Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
Specialists and general readers alike will appreciate his sure historical grasp, evenhanded assignment of fault, careful assessment of shifting domestic political considerations, and understanding of the foreign cultural barriers that so frustrated American intentions. A skilled, persuasive appraisal of a unique moment in our foreign policy history." - Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Mission Failure is a commanding, synoptic review of US foreign policy choices and their outcomes (often unintended and unhappy) from 1993 to 2014. It is beautifully written and has that rarity in modern, policy-relevant books: deep knowledge of history, combined with the granular understanding of US policymaking-qualities that longtime readers of Mandelbaum's work have come to expect and appreciate." - Charles Lipson, University of Chicago, and author of Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace
Mission Failure is a startlingly original, creative new book-essentially an epitaph for America's foreign policy in the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War. This is a trenchant critique of the faltering efforts by both Republican and Democratic presidents to refashion governments and societies around the world, from Somalia and Bosnia to China, Iraq and Libya." - James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans and The Obamians
This book, from one of the major analysts of American foreign policy, is well-written, wide in scope, and insightful and penetrating in its vivid dissection of what might call the Twenty Years Disaster. It is a provocative must-read that will be of interest not only to specialists, but to the general public in whose name the cascading foreign policy failure has been carried out." - John Mueller, author of Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism
A superbly written, masterful, and deeply provocative work by Michael Mandelbaum. He makes a compelling argument in opposition to what he terms a values-based rather than interest and security-based foreign policy and to the waste of America's foreign policy capital, resources and credibility in fruitless efforts to transform foreign societies." - Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University, author of Retreat and Its Consequences: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order
Mission Failure explains how nation-building came to be the chief focus of US foreign policy in the past generation, and unblinkingly underlines how large a failure that has been. Michael Mandelbaum is one of the country's most acute analysts of US foreign policy, and his book should be required reading for policymakers today." - Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last Man
A well-told, lucid, thoughtful survey of world affairs…any student of the last quarter century would be well served to read this volume." - Wall Street Journal

Notă biografică

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author or co-author of sixteen books, including The Ideas That Conquered the World, The Meaning of Sports, The Frugal Superpower, and, with Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times Best Seller That Used To Be Us.