"Daalder and Lindsay offer a provocative and original thesis --and also a caution to those who have underestimated George W. Bush's decisive and historic impact on the course of American foreign policy." --Robert Kagan, author OF PARADISE AND POWER: AMERICA AND EUROPE IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER "That infamous day, September 11, revolutionized many things, not least American foreign policy. Widely recognized foreign policy experts Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay have provided the first critical but fair account of the historic shift in U.S. foreign policy brought on by the age of terrorism. Most importantly, this book carefully documents our shift away from post-Cold War norms of internationalism toward a new doctrine: 'you are either with us or against us.'" --Gary Hart, U.S. Senator (Ret.)
Ivo H. Daalder is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair in International Security at the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor, with James M. Lindsay, of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2003) and the coauthor of Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo (Brookings, 2001), written with Michael E. O'Hanlon. James M. Lindsay is vice president and director of studies of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Chair. He was previously deputy director and senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include Agenda for the Nation (Brookings 2003) and Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (Brookings 2001). In 1996-97, Lindsay was director for global issues and multilateral affairs on the National Security Council staff.
"As Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay say in their new book, America
Unbound, the move to a doctrine of pre-emption or preventive war is
a true revolution in American foreign policy, despite its roots in
the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson"
—Gerald Beller, West Virginia State College, The Charleston
Gazette, 2/10/2004|"... a reasoned, well-documented analysis of the
origins and evolution of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush
administration.... This book seems written for a mass audience....
Recommended." —C.W. Herrick, Muhlenberg College, Choice,
6/1/2004|"Mr. Bush is widely seen, abroad if not at home, as a
bonehead with more brawn than brain who has little control over his
administration, especially of the neoconservatives who seem to
exert such influence within it. This view is rubbish, argue Ivo
Daalder and James Lindsay, both scholars at American think-tanks.
Mr. Bush is his own man; he sees himself as the chief executive
officer of a huge enterprise and acts accordingly; he has a world
view and a clear idea of how america should fit into it; and he is
no fool." — The Economist, 12/20/2003|"So what, one might ask. Has
the US not put Saddam Hussein in prison and forced Colonel Muammer
Gadaffi to abandon his programme for making weapons of mass
destruction? Indeed, it has. Force works. But it will not, on its
own, achieve the democratic transformation the US now seeks. As Ivo
Daalder and James M. Lindsay argue in an important study of the
administration's foreign policy: 'The Iraq experience underscored
that how America led mattered as much as whether it led.'" —Martin
Wolf, Financial Times, 12/24/2003|"AMERICA UNBOUND is the most
ambitious and important study in this batch, not least because the
authors painstakingly develop the provocative thesis that the
president is not the Dubya of cartoonists, a dim puppet of a cabal
of old-guard hawks and neocons, but the master puppeteer
himself....The research is admirable, the arguments are well
marshaled, and the absence of stridency adds considerable authority
to the portrayal of Bush as a president whose 'worldview simply
made no allowance for others' doubting the purity of American
motives.'" —Serge Schmemann, International Herald Tribune, The New
York Times Book Review, 1/25/2004|"Reprint of The Washington
Times/UPI article." —Martin Sieff, United Press International, The
San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/28/2003|"Reprint of The Washington
Times article." —Martin Sieff, United Press International, United
Press International, 12/26/2003|"[A] lucid and concise account of
what the authors call 'the Bush revolution' in foreign
affairs....It is doubtful that another book will come along soon
that covers all the important points of the administrations's
foreign policy with more clarity and evenhandedness." —Joshua Micah
Marshall, Foreign Affairs, 11/1/2003|"Daalder and Lindsay argue
that despite the lack of knowledge about foreign policy Bush
revealed during the 2000 campaign, his views are well formed and
held with deep conviction....[They] conclude that the Bush
revolution is only a partial one, and is best understood as
changing the way the United States conducts foreign policy, not the
goals of foreign policy." —Alan Wolfe, Boston College, Commonweal,
12/5/2003|"As Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay argue cogently in
their new book America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in American
Foreign Policy, the Iraq policy and the whole unilateralist and
pre-empt strategy doctrine that underlay it were not forced on a
weak, inexperienced and vacillating president by dominant figures
pulling his strings. These policies were eagerly adopted by a
gung-ho, supremely confident president who was convinced he had the
broad picture right and who sees the world in uncompromising
Manichean terms of black and white, right and wrong." —Martin
Sieff, United Press International, Washington Times,
12/26/2003|"Daalder's and Lindsay's great art is to independently
describe rather than to blindly defend." —Robert Lincoln, Richmond
Times Dispatch, 1/18/2004|"Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay,
former U.S. National Security Council advisers, won the $15,000
prize for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
(Brookings Institution Press)." — The Canadian Press,
3/2/2004|"Clinton advisors win prize for book on Bush policy." —
The Toronto Star, 3/3/2004|"I would not have imagined that two
former Clinton staffers could write such a detached and richly
textured book about Bush foreign policy. AMERICA UNBOUND is
refreshingly original and it makes the case for President Bush as
the master of his own unilateralist revolution. Future examinations
of Bush foreign policy will be measured against this authoritative
book.
" —Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public
Radio|"Daalder and Lindsay have done an excellent job of
chronicling history in the making, and of doing so soberly, with
insight rather than vitrol." —Laura Secor, The American Prospect,
4/1/2004|"A stirring and thought-provoking exhortation of President
George W. Bush as a bringer of global change, America Unbound is
strongly recommended reading for political conservatives, political
commentators, and students of contemporary American politics as
reflected by the Bush Administration as it engages in a global war
against international terrorism." — The Bookwatch, 3/1/2004|"A
useful analysis...Their emphasis is less on the shift to preventive
war than on the administration's doctrinaire analysis and its
moralistic arrogance." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., New York Review of
Books, 10/23/2003|"Reprint of NYT review" —James Chace, New York
Times, San Antonio Express-News, 1/4/2004|"Ivo H. Daalder and James
M. Lindsay are co-authors of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution
in Foriegn Policy, which won the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize for the
best book on international relations." —Ivo Daalder and James
Lindsay, The Globe and Mail, 3/26/2004|"...an illuminating book on
the Bush revolution and the doctrine of unilateral intervention and
pre-emptive war." —James Chace, New York Times, International
Herald Tribune, 12/20/2003|"...a splendidly illuminating book on
the 'Bush Revolution' and the doctrine of unilateral intervention
and pre-emptive war. Buttressed by extensive research, the authors
demonstrate convincingly that Mr. Bush is not the puppet of the
vice president or the Defense Department hawks. He has fundamental
beliefs that have reversed America's six-decade commitment to
internationalism." — The New York Times|"Ivo H. Daalder and James
M. Lindsay, two alumni of the Clinton Administration's National
Security Council, have given us a very useful -- and strikingly
even-handed -- synopsis of President Bush's foreign policies....
America Unbound is a good book, well worth reading." —Geoffrey
Riklin, Intellectualconservative.com, 3/1/2004|"AMERICA UNBOUND is
a thorough and learned account of how Bush has handled
international relations....It is written in a brisk, engaging style
that one does not automatically associate with Washington think
tanks." —Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, Reason, 2/1/2004|"Listed
among the top-selling American foreign policy and international
affairs books with the #13 position." — Foreign Affairs,
3/31/2004|"Exhaustively documented... this book by two Clinton
administration National security Council staffers, is a readable,
balanced, and concise work that explains the present
administration's theory behind the practice. These two authors, who
know as much about how foreign policy is translated into action as
anyone, have accomplished an empirical analysis of the actions and
statements of President Bush and his advisers, discovering and
articulating the worldviews behind their decicions.... America
Unbound is, ultimately, a criticism of President Bush's policies,
his foreign policy unilateralism in particular.... The authors base
their case... on the position that the complex foreign policy goals
now confronting America cannot be solved with a 'go it alone'
policy." —David Marquet, U.S. Navy, Naval War College Review,
4/1/2004|"Of all the books that expound the New Look in U.S.
foreign policy, America Unbound has been rightly acclaimed as the
best. The research is thorough; analysis is incisive, and the
approach fair to the point of being generous to Bush. That makes
their criticism of Bush all the more telling. Their careful record
of the policy debate alone serves to make the book a reliable work
of reference." —A.G. Noorani, Frontline, 12/3/2004|"Amidst a flood
of literature on the Bush foreign policy, America Unbound stands
out as the most articulate and compelling. Students of the Bush
presidency and US foreign policy will be consulting this instant
classic for decades to come." —Andrew Preston, University of
Victoria, International Journal|"...a useful overview and
authoritative example of current political issues surrounding the
Bush presidency in particular and trends in the U.S. foreign policy
more generally....America Unbound offers a solid basis for
understanding the consequences of the unleashing of America by the
Bush presidency." —Laura A. Stengrim, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 12/2/2005|"Daalder
and Lindsay offer a provocative and original thesis —and also a
caution to those who have underestimated George W. Bush's decisive
and historic impact on the course of American foreign policy."
—Robert Kagan, author OF PARADISE AND POWER: AMERICA AND EUROPE IN
THE NEW WORLD ORDER|"That infamous day, September 11,
revolutionized many things, not least American foreign policy.
Widely recognized foreign policy experts Ivo Daalder and James
Lindsay have provided the first critical but fair account of the
historic shift in U.S. foreign policy brought on by the age of
terrorism. Most importantly, this book carefully documents our
shift away from post-Cold War norms of internationalism toward a
new doctrine: 'you are either with us or against us.'" —Gary Hart,
U.S. Senator (Ret.)
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