America's Search for Security

In America's Search for Security Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America’s rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing if not disastrous outcomes can befall America abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied unclear and fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an unquestionable world power. <BR />