No president has abandoned the rhetoric or the practice of right and wrong in foreign policy quite as shamelessly as Donald Trump
By Michael Kimmage.HE UNITED STATES
This is the sombre backdrop for three very different books about America’s place in the world. Joseph Nye, a former dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard, looks at how presidents have struggled to embody their country’s moral leadership. Michael Kimmage, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund, teases out the contradictions in the idea of an American-led “West”. And Mr Bacevich, a professor emeritus at Boston University, depicts the construction of a post-cold-war doctrine of American power.
Every president has had his blemishes, of course. Mr Nye has seen too much of the world to have illusions about that. But—and here you suspect is the real purpose of this book—none has abandoned the rhetoric or the practice of right and wrong in foreign policy quite as shamelessly as President Donald Trump. No president has so enthusiastically embraced both autocrats and the Hobbesian idea that might is right.
And Mr Kimmage describes how, once it was no longer protected by rivalry with the Soviet Union, the notion of “the West” fell out of favour as an ideological rallying point. The left has increasingly regarded it as “too white, too male in its history, too elitist, too complicit in the Euro-American aggressions of less enlightened eras”.
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