{"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. 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