Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America
"Smart Power is simply superb. In an age of imperial folly and militarized illusions, Ted Galen Carpenter has been a voice of reason and good sense. In this impressive collection of essays, he surveys the wreckage of the Bush era and illuminates the way ahead."-ANDREW J. BACEVICHAuthor of The Limits of Power"Like a good doctor, Ted Galen Carpenter has spent his whole career trying to cure America of its `foreign policy hypochondria.' Smart Power brings together some of his sharpest diagnoses of our unhealthy tendency to cleave to obsolete security commitments, add new ones willy-nilly, and muck about in intractable conflicts in which we have no real interest. Carpenter's essays constitute strong medicine, but that is precisely what our country needs in these fevered days!"-PROF. MICHAEL C. DESCHRobert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National SecurityDecision-Making, Bush School of Government and Public ServiceTexas A & M University"This is a timely collection of Ted Galen Carpenter's timeless advice on America's foreign policy. Instead of claiming the impossible role of global security manager, America should recognize the limits of its interests and resources, he argues, and return home to fulfill freedom's opportunities."-PROF. HARVEY M. SAPOLSKYDefense and Arms Control StudiesMassachusetts Institute of Technology