Sounds like an interesting book. I am grateful for the review's concluding paragraph, however. I try to teach my students that politics is always about trade-offs. Critique is essential but also, in a sense, easy, at least compared to the hard (and often boring) work of constructing practical alternatives that account for our full range of policy goals, both foreign and domestic, the resources available to pursue them, and the likelihood or even certainty that our efforts will produce unintended consequences. This book nevertheless sounds as though it would prompt quite a bit of soul-searching. Thank you for the review.
Sounds like an interesting book. I am grateful for the review's concluding paragraph, however. I try to teach my students that politics is always about trade-offs. Critique is essential but also, in a sense, easy, at least compared to the hard (and often boring) work of constructing practical alternatives that account for our full range of policy goals, both foreign and domestic, the resources available to pursue them, and the likelihood or even certainty that our efforts will produce unintended consequences. This book nevertheless sounds as though it would prompt quite a bit of soul-searching. Thank you for the review.