The Hell Of Good Intentions Americas Foreign Policy Elite And The Decline Of Us Primacy 1st Edition Stephen M Walt by Stephen M. Walt 9780374280031, 0374280037 instant download after payment.

This book argues that Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election because a majority of American voters had rejected the dysfunctional nature of traditional American foreign policy. Since the end of the Cold War, the political establishment in Washington D.C. had pursued ambitious foreign-policy objectives, known as liberal hegemony, as though the United States were the only nation that was responsible for policing the rest of the world. However, these political elites rarely considered the long-term effects of their actions, such as the rise of militant Islam and the renewal of Chinese power. Liberal hegemony sought to use American power to defend and spread the traditional liberal principles of individual freedom, democratic governance, and market-based economics. But because this grand strategy failed comprehensively, the book proposes the alternative doctrine of offshore balancing. The book concludes that world peace is best promoted by abandoning threats of regime change around the world and by greatly reducing America's military presence overseas.