{"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":54786,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54786","url_meta":{"origin":44926,"position":0},"title":"National Council on Public History (NCPH): Statement in Response to White House \u201cSaving America\u2019s Story\u201d Report","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"NCPH Statement in Response to the White House \u201cSaving America\u2019s Story\u201d Report and in Support of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Published July 9, 2026 The National Council on Public History (NCPH) rejects the findings of the \u201cSaving America\u2019s Story\u201d report on the Smithsonian National Museum of American\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;Novosti&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Statement-Release.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Statement-Release.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Statement-Release.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Statement-Release.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Statement-Release.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":53227,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53227","url_meta":{"origin":44926,"position":1},"title":"Gostuju\u0107a predavanja Paula A. 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