Temptations of a Superpower (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government)

By Ronald Steel

Book Overview

America may now be the last remaining superpower, but what does this triumph mean when the challenges faced often defy military solutions? This text examines this question with its implications for America's role in the post-Cold War world. Ronald Steel offers a critique of a high-stakes game of foreign policy played by rules that no longer apply, and then proposes an alternative view of the world and America's place in it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674873408
• ISBN13: 9780674873407
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding book

I am Russian and have been in the US for 1 year. This is the first book I read that really explained to me unexplainable things in American foreign policy. Obviously a scholar, Mr. Steel nevertheless does beautiful work in explaining how things really work in practice without any open partisan agenda or moralistic drivel. Thoughtful and balanced book, worth reading particularly for foreigners who would like a better understanding of how American foreign policy works and what the forces behind it are.