Angelo M. Codevilla

America's Rise and Fall among Nations

Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams

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Produktbeschreibung

"An "America first" agenda pursues what benefits our national character and advances our legitimate interests, and regards all foreign relations from that perspective. Minding our own business while leaving other peoples to mind theirs was the basis of the United States' successful foreign policy from 1815-1910. Best described by John Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors, this is the foreign policy by which America grew prosperous in peace. And this remains the American people's common sense. America's Rise and Fall among Nations contrasts this original "America first" foreign policy with the principles and results of the subsequent century's Progressive policy. This book shows the transformation of a culture of peace and victory into that of statesmen who eliminate the concepts of victory and peace from the military's official vocabulary as they manage endless wars. Finally, America's Rise and Fall among Nations examines how John Quincy Adams's insights are applicable to the current domestic and international environment and exemplify what "America First" can mean in our time"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encounter Books, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781641772723
• ISBN-10: 1641772727
• Artikelnr.: 62754716

Autorenporträt

Angelo Maria Codevilla was professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. He also taught at Georgetown University and Princeton University. Born in Italy in 1943, he became a U.S. citizen in 1962, married Ann Blaesser in 1966, and had five children. He served as a U.S. Navy officer, Foreign Service Officer, professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as on President Reagan¿s transition teams for the State Department and Intelligence. Formerly a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, he was more recently a member of its working group on military history. He ran a vineyard in Plymouth, California. Among Codevilläs books are War Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury, 1989); Informing Statecraft (1992); The Prince (Rethinking the Western Tradition) (1997); The Character of Nations, 2nd ed. (1997); Advice to War Presidents (2009); A Student¿s Guide to International Relations (2010); and To Make and Keep Peace (2014).