{"id":44926,"date":"2025-02-20T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44926"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:24:44","slug":"paul-w-schroeder-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44926","title":{"rendered":"Paul W. Schroeder, &#8220;America&#8217;s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America\u2019s greatest historians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>America&#8217;s Fatal Leap<\/em>&nbsp;deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author&#8217;s unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporter of American leadership in the world. But he wrote scathing op-eds for the National Interest and the American Conservative about the hubris and moral failings of the War on Terror, warning of damaging long-range effects on the international system. Schroeder compared 9\/11 to the assassination in Sarajevo that sparked the First World War, insisting that a great power should never give terrorists a war they wanted. He wrote with extraordinary prescience &#8211; months before the US launched its attack on the Taliban &#8211; of the &#8216;risks of victory&#8217; in Afghanistan, characterised the war in Iraq as a failed bid for informal empire, and called for &#8216;disimperialism&#8217; in the Middle East.<br><br><em>America&#8217;s Fatal Leap<\/em>&nbsp;collects Schroeder&#8217;s remarkable interventions on America&#8217;s adventurism in the Middle East, from the 1991 Gulf War to the Surge of 2007. It includes an Introduction by Perry Anderson, author of&nbsp;<em>US Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Ever Closer Union?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>336 pages \/ February 2025 \/ 9781804295762<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/3200-america-s-fatal-leap\">America&#039;s Fatal Leap<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Leap.webp?fit=430%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53227,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53227","url_meta":{"origin":44926,"position":0},"title":"Gostuju\u0107a predavanja Paula A. 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