This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure.
While there were many setbacks between the fall of Soviet communism and the opening years of the Trump administration, from Rwanda to 9/11 and Iraq to Syria, Lynch demonstrates that the US remained the world\'s dominant power..
This book tells the story not of a revolution in American foreign policy but of its essentially continuous character from one era to the next.
When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared worse.
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
