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The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington's insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the "West" and its "special relationships," its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order -- these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters.In a bold reconception of America's place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevich -- founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy -- lays down a new approach -- one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort.
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Andrew J. Bacevich grew up in Indiana, graduated from West Point and Princeton, served in the army, became an academic, and is now a writer. He is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books, among them American Empire, The New American Militarism, The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, and Breach of Trust. His next book America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History is scheduled for publication in 2016.
