| The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era Contributor(s): Mandelbaum, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1610390547 ISBN-13: 9781610390545 Publisher: PublicAffairs OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Business & Economics | Public Finance - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 327.73 |
| LCCN: 2010014453 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 programs -- Social Security and Medicare -- will 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. |