Reviews for The roles of the United States, Russia, and China in the new world order

The average rating for The roles of the United States, Russia, and China in the new world order based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-17 00:00:00 Renita Lovell First to review! I'm a little surprised that Haass' book doesn't have more reviewers. He's sort of one of my foreign policy idols, and this book does a lot to back that up. This is a very short book but it has a compelling argument. Haass argues that the post cold war world is best defined as an age of deregulation. The Cold War provided a certain structure to the international system and a rubric for US grand strategy. When the Cold War ended, a flurry of long-simmering issues rose to the forefront: WMD proliferation, rogue states, environmental problems, terrorism, civil wars, regional conflicts, etc. US interests remained largely the same, but the threats to those interests became more varied. Haass makes the interesting point that formal alliances will be harder to sustain in the post CW world because of a lack of a clear, priority threat (USSR or China) and disagreement over what the main threats to different national interests are. As a result, he says the US should be prepared to lead posses against different threats based on who has an interest in countering that threat or achieving some objective. He cites the Gulf War coalition as that type of threat. Haass' post CW world is both deregulated and interdependent. Even though it's a really confusing place, the US doesn't realistically have the option of withdrawing from global politics. So what should America's role be? Haass strikes a nice balance between the excesses of neoconservatism/hegemony, the pitfalls of neo-isolation, and the shortcomings of realism. He comes closest to realism, but lacks realism's narrow-minded focus on states, power, and interest. Haass sees the US role as the regulator in an age of deregulation in international politics. The US is the only country with the resources and knowhow to provide some amount of structure in the world: leading alliances and posses, guaranteeing security in key regions like Europe or the Persian Gulf, addressing humanitarian crises, bolstering institutions and integrating states into them. Still, Haass is clear that the US must prioritize its national interests and key regions of the world. He is skeptical of the idea of the US providing security everywhere and challenging every rising power, and he's equally skeptical of the use of US power for humanitarian interventions, which he believes often causes more problems than its solves. I found this to be a pretty good, bipartisan definition of the US role in the world from an excellent political thinker. Haass borders on realism, but he understands that the amorality of realism is politically unrealistic: the US has to care to some extent about human rights and democracy or the public will not buy into any global role. What I covered is really just from the first half of the book. the second half was a little slower; it mainly featured Haass describing different tools of foreign policy and when they are most appropriate to use. Still, if you are a scholar looking for a mainstream, quasi-realist foreign policy statement from the 1990's, this could be a useful book. Haass is a clear thinker and writer, and it's too bad he never gained higher positions in government.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-15 00:00:00 Thomas Ecret This is a great Walter Dean Myers Book. I relly loved the story line to it. The story line was about a Young guy living on his own name Motown,who meets a well educated girl name Didi with a brother thats a drug attack. As the the story begins Mowtown gets closer and closer to Didi in there realationship but Didi is having problems with her brother in the drug game.Didi balances the two and Mowtown is by her side during all actions.