TY - JOUR
AU - Walker, Martin
AB - Book reviews After the crusade: American foreign policy for the post-superpower age. By Jonathan Clarke and James Clad. Lanham, MD: Madison Books. 1995. 228pp. Index. $24.95. ISBN I 56833 051 o. Modern Britain, in Dean Acheson's cruel phrase, had lost an empire and had yet to find a role. After the end of the Cold War, the United States of America remains an empire, but there is confusion about the international purposes to which it should devote its attention. The aim of James Clad and Jonathan Clarke, former diplomats from New Zealand and Britain respectively, is to offer a definition commensurate with both America's true interests and its powers. If they attribute blame for this uncertainty, it is to the foreign policy establishment, still attached to an all-embracing role which Americans accepted as an inevitable part of the crusade against communism, still eager in its identification of the urgent problems which require America's involvement: the advancement of democracy and human rights, economic competitiveness, regional instability, nuclear proliferation, and ecological issues are prominent among those suggested. All this, the authors suggest, represents too diffuse and unfocused a programme, arguably beyond America's capacities. Above all, it conflicts with the American people's 
TI - To renew America
JO - International Affairs
DO - 10.2307/2624831
DA - 1996-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/to-renew-america-z0r2YuGc0u
SP - 214
EP - 215
VL - 72
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -