{"product_id":"at-war-with-ourselves-why-america-is-squandering-its-chance-to-build-a-better-world-9780195176025","title":"At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World","description":"As correspondent for \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America's role in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the future. \u003cbr\u003e Using colorful vignettes and up-close reporting from his coverage of the first two post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Hirsh argues that America has a new role never before played by any nation: it is the world's Uberpower, overseeing the global system from the air, land, sea and, increasingly, from space as well. And that means America has a unique opportunity do what no great power in history has ever done--to perpetuate indefinitely the global system it has built, to create an international community with American power at its center that is so secure it may never be challenged. Yet Americans are squandering this chance by failing to realize what is at stake. At the same time that America as a nation possesses powers it barely comprehends, Americans as individuals have vulnerabilities they never before imagined. They desperately need the international community on their side.\u003cbr\u003e In an era when democracy and free markets have become the prevailing ideology, Hirsh argues, one of America's biggest problems will be \"ideological blowback\"--facing up to the flaws and contradictions of its own ideals. Hence, for example, the biggest threat to political stability is not totalitarianism, but the tricky task of instituting democracy in the Arab world without giving Islamic fundamentalists the reigns of power. The only way for Washington to avoid accusations of hypocrisy is to allow the global institutions it has built, like the U.N., to do the hard work of promoting U.S. values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hirsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.38w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195176025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hirsh\u003c\/strong\u003e is the former Foreign Editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e. He is currently a senior editor in the magazine's Washington bureau. He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. In addition to \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, he has also written for \u003cem\u003eForeign Affairs, Harper's\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWashington Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e. Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for \"prescience in identifying the al Qaeda threat half a year before September 11\" and for \u003cem\u003eNewsweek's\u003c\/em\u003e coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award. He lives in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45022636638323,"sku":"9780195176025","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fa9c28aa-9679-4168-9d71-c2e0701095c8.jpg?v=1779278609","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/at-war-with-ourselves-why-america-is-squandering-its-chance-to-build-a-better-world-9780195176025","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}