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Die Demokratie Und Ihre Feinde: Wer Gestaltet Die Neue Weltordnung? (2008)

by Robert Kagan(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3886808904 (ISBN13: 9783886808908)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Siedler

review 1: The premise of this book was that everyone thought after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union that competition would move from a military sphere to an economic sphere. This has not been the case, Russia, China, India, Iran, Japan and others have begun building up their militaries. They have also competed economically. The world faces much of the same political maneuvering that it has for that last few centuries. I found the book very interesting because I was not aware of the extent to which the Russians and the Chinese have been building their military complexes. The author makes the point that Americans have always seen themselves as the reluctant sheriff getting involved only in the interest of other countries to break up squabbles. He also p... moreoints out that the world will always hate the United States, whether we were to meddle or not, simply because of the influence and the wealth the nation enjoys.
review 2: A good, although I believe premature, analysis on the shape of geopolitical relations now and how it will affect the world during the next century. As always, Kagan has a simple yet brilliant way of explaining difficult concepts to the average reader. While his argument is good, as I said before I find his analysis premature. I don't believe Russia is as autocratic as he is making it out to be. Even if it is, Putin has not had a grasp on authoritarian power long enough to make a large difference in the grand scheme of things. I still believe smart trade policy combined with smart diplomacy can keep Russia from slipping back into the time of the Czars. On the other hand, if current trends continue to go the way they are going, Kagan can be proven all too correct. Really, this book is a wake up call to stop focusing all our foreign policy attention on terrorists and look at the big picture of how the world is, once again, lining up between liberal-democratic nation-states and and a new form of authoritarianism that embraces rather than shrugs capitalism. While the book may make people like me feel a little down, this book calls Americans to engage more in the world and not less. less

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