About this title: Kagan argues that hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have proved wrong. He stresses that peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it or let others shape it for them.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2009-05-05
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN-13:9780307269232ISBN:030726923X
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"The Return of History, and the End of Dreams is a short (105 pages), troubling book on the state of the world, its great powers, and what the future could hold. Kagan is one of the neocons, and seems quite at home w/ the Big Picture, which sees a world roughly aligned between the democracies (the United States, Europe, Japan, India (the new player), and the autocracies (Russia, China, Iran, and a grab bag of rogue states). Kagan sees the world entering a dangerous era that resembles the 19th Century Great Game, rather than some sort 21st "end of history" phase where lions will lay down with sheep to talk about all the values that they share. Kagan isn't necessarily saying war is imminent, but clear thinking - and seeing, is required. Good stuff."
"This wasn't a bad book - just one that slipped from my interest level as it plodded on. The thesis - that the post-fall of Communism world is fraught with a whole new set of foreign policy challenges that we (the U.S.) are in many way unprepared to face - is right on. I just got about 3/4's of the way through & never found myself interested in picking it up again."
"Few books have changed my world view as dramatically as this one has. I never realized how ignorant of I was of global geopolitics, and a lot of my libertarian policies of national military isolationism have been challenged.
This concise read paints a very realistic and thoroughly researched picture of a "world precariously at the edge of a new time of turmoil." "The end of history," referring to the end of the Cold War, an end to nearly a half century of unremitting hostility of the two polar superpowers, was supposedly the beginning of an era of liberal democracies that strayed away from the geopolitical hostilities of the past in favor of a more post-modern geoeconomical approach of conflict abatement. Aptly named, in the book "The Return of History", Kagan argues that our post-Cold War unipolar superpower status and liberalized brave new world is but a fleeting glimpse of stability, quickly equilibrating into a multi-polar world with the rising conflicting interests of autocratic regimes, such as China, Russia, and Iran. "The end of history" is but an optimistic myth. Kagan takes a brief overview of the ambitions and perceptions of different key players in the international community, and how each power is rising and attempting to secure its interests through traditional militaristic geopolitics.
Global stability, argues Kagan, is maintained by American military supremacy and presence in many regions, which would otherwise befall to the ambitions of unchecked autocratic belligerence, such as in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Even commerce routes in the oceans are at a historic level of stability thanks to American naval superiority and dominance, which keeps disputes over waterways at bay.
A very interesting and quick read... and gives you a lot to think about!"
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