{"product_id":"paul-w-schroeder-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016","title":"Paul W. Schroeder: America's Fatal Leap: 1991-2016","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVerso, 2026, Paperback, 336 pages, \u003cspan\u003e12.98 x 19.81 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historians\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in the world. But he wrote scathing op-eds for the National Interest and the American Conservative about the hubris and moral failings of the War on Terror, warning of damaging long-range effects on the international system. Schroeder compared 9\/11 to the assassination in Sarajevo that sparked the First World War, insisting that a great power should never give terrorists a war they wanted. He wrote with extraordinary prescience - months before the US launched its attack on the Taliban - of the 'risks of victory' in Afghanistan, characterised the war in Iraq as a failed bid for informal empire, and called for 'disimperialism' in the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerica's Fatal Leap\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects Schroeder's remarkable interventions on America's adventurism in the Middle East, from the 1991 Gulf War to the Surge of 2007. It includes an Introduction by Perry Anderson, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUS Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEver Closer Union?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58347863343488,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/613nPVZA8QL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782727935","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/paul-w-schroeder-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}