The Jungle Grows Back The Jungle Grows Back

The Jungle Grows Back

America and Our Imperiled World

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Publisher Description

"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman, The New York Times

A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.


Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2018
September 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.3
MB

Customer Reviews

EatSleepHoop21 ,

An excellent, comprehensive argument to honor our commitments abroad

Robert Kagan demonstrates both his erudition and his thorough understanding of international relations in the 20th and 21st centuries with this book. In today’s current debate between interventionism and retrenchment, Kagan asserts a powerful argument for the United States to remain the ‘indispensable nation’ that both leads and undergirds the liberal world order.

brent janss ,

Eloquent

I highly recommend this book. Wonderfully written, concise, insightful - a true introspection of our global order.

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