To liberal multilateralism nor the persistence of this orientation during the Cold War can be attributed solely or even primarily to the global power structure or crude considerations of material self-interest. postwar planners split into two rival global camps? World order despite the outbreak of the Cold War in the late 1940s, as the “One World” that had been anticipated by U.S. THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN MULTILATERALISM AND THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR First, why did the United States embrace the principles and practices of liberal multilateralism during World War II? Second, why did it cling to this vision of The Best Laid Plans answers two central questions. Understand their opportunities and challenges for the future. United States once again finds itself at the apex At a time when our strategic assumptions are once again being challenged by the new threats of the twenty-first century, The Best Laid Plans charts our recent past in ways that offer a valuable guide to the future.” -ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Bert G. He shows how the values that undergird America’s national identity and changing strategic assumptions among the foreign policy elite helped move the country from isolationism to a genuine and pervasive commitment to institutionalized decision-making. “Stewart Patrick has added an important piece to the continuing puzzle of why the United States, which enjoyed a dominant strategic position in 1945, chose an overarching strategy of multilateralism. To understand the history of each approach is toĬouncil on Foreign Relations. KUPCHAN, professor, Georgetown University, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies for Council on Foreign Relations, and author of The End of the American Era “A timely and important book, which shows convincingly how and why the twenty-first century quest for a viable global order is linked inextricably with the ongoing political struggle for the heart and soul of America itself.” -JOHN GERARD RUGGIE, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, and Special Representative of UN Secretary General for Business and Human RightsĮralism in American foreign policy is critically important in today’s complicated world. grand strategy has come from and where it may be headed.” -CHARLES A. He uncovers how interests, ideas, and America’s liberal identity came together to fashion a multilateral brand of global engagement, shedding important light on where U.S. “Stewart Patrick provides a compelling and nuanced account of the evolution of liberal internationalism in the United States. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (2002) and Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Post-Conflict Recovery (2000). STEWART PATRICK is a senior fellow and director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Role of multilateral cooperation in the realization of U.S. unilatof world power, and debates are rife about the Virtues and values of multilateralism vs. The long-standing but unresolved debate of the
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