The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
2018 • 192 pages
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"A[n] argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward"--
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World Order is Not Immune to Entropy
“The liberal world order is fragile and impermanent. Like a garden, it is ever under siege from the natural forces of history, the jungle whose vines and weeds constantly threaten to overwhelm it...Unfortunately, we tend to take our world for granted. We have lived so long inside the bubble of the liberal order that we can imagine no other kind of world. We think it is natural and normal, even inevitable.”
An excellent exploration of internationalist American foreign policy–and why continued diplomacy, trade, and yes, even occasional military engagement is necessary to uphold and preserve the rights of all democracies and their people.
