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Advice to War Presidents
A Remedial Course in Statecraft
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Employing many negative examples from the Bush II administration but also ranging widely over the last century, Advice to War Presidents offers a primer on the unchanging principles of foreign policy. Codevilla explains the essentials — focusing on realities such as diplomacy, alliances, war, economic statecraft, intelligence, and prestige, rather than on meaningless phrases like “international community,” “peacekeeping” and “collective security.” Not a realist, neoconservative, or a liberal internationalist, Codevilla follows an older tradition: that of historians like Thucydides, Herodotus, and Winston Churchill — writers who analyzed international affairs without imposing false categories.
Advice to War Presidents is an effort to talk our future presidents down from their rhetorical highs and get them to practice statecraft rather than wishful thinking, lest they give us further violence.
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Publishers Weekly
Accessible Codevilla writes intelligently on topics as diverse as the affect of economic sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s and contemporary relations between Russia and Georgia.”
Library Journal
Veteran international relations author Codevilla questions basic assumptions that have guided U.S. foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson tried to make the world safe for democracy Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.”
American Spectator
Machiavelli could not have written a better book to give advice to war presidents.'”
Claremont Review
Compelling reading bracing and intelligent.”
FamilySecurityMatters.org
[An] expansive and important work [Advice to War Presidents] should be required reading for Senators and their staff as an essential primer to the arcane world of arms control.”
First Principals
A refreshingly unashamed conservative critique of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, especially with regard to war and the use of force.”
- On Sale
- Mar 24, 2009
- Page Count
- 336 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465004836
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