Pax Americana

"KIRKUS REVIEW : In a first book, The End of Alliance: America and the Future of Europe, the author, a young writer on international affairs, wrote an important popular study of the withering away of the Atlantic strategy of the United States and the disruption of NATO out of old age. In the present study, the author widens his investigation of the Kennedy-Johnson foreign policies and comes out of this intelligent and well-reasoned work with a general condemnation of the globalistic urge of recent American presidents to create a Pax America unrelated to this nation's resources or long-term interests. The villains of this intensely polemical work are all men of good will who, in varying degrees, suffer from what D. W. Brogan has called the ""illusion of American omnipotence."" The consequences of their amateurism have increased the world's insecurity and augmented the danger of crisis situations, natural to a world of 140 nation-states, boiling over the brim of diplomacy into the unknown. The way out is to doff the messianic sense of mission and detail Chinese and Soviet imperialism rather than communist ideology as the task to be dealt with, at the same time realizing that nationalism is a more reliable defense against expansionism than anti-communism."--www.kirkusreviews.com.