This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US Foreign Policy after the Cold War was a failure.
When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared wors.
In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a Shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that Shadow than in attempts to escape it.
This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US Foreign Policy after the Cold War was a failure