Like the Eagle,
the United States roves round a orbit defined by its foreign
policies. It has its own set of values and principles, interests
and goals that form the bedrock of its foreign policies guided
by the Declaration of Independence. These values and principles,
serve as lodestar that help keep the United States flying towards
the furthest points in that orbit through the completion of
the still unfinished jobs of the Declaration and the War of
Independence.
The perimeters of these concentric circles happen to be those
crucial phases that America attained through the successful
conduct of its foreign policies at various crossroads in that
country’s journey towards the future.
The combined sagacity and the ‘burning will’ of
the American founding fathers triggered off a ‘political’
big bang that not only caused a great upheaval in the geopolitical
foundations of the European monarchic powers but also made the
American thoughts and ideals so powerful a ‘religion’
as to pervade the entire landmass of our planet for quite sometime
to come.
With the abrupt termination of the bipolar world order in the
early 1990s, the scepter of the dark and the chaotic Middle
Age loomed. Instead of deciding to ‘rule’ the rest
of the world by the power of sword that had characterized the
Middle Age or instead of cornering the gains of modern scientific-technological
inventions through colonial ‘ploys’ that had possessed
several erstwhile European powers, the ever-dynamic United States
rather preferred a post modern and neo-liberal course. As a
result, ‘non-imperial’ United States now faces a
dilemma in shaping the rest of the world in its own image. This
book is unique in that it goes to the heart of that riddle.
Teaser
This book answers the conundrum why the United States and
others harbor mutual suspicion and hatred. Will America transcend
the great power decline syndrome or else repeat history?
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