Our Own Worst Enemy
Our Own Worst Enemy by I. M. Destler, published by Touchstone on April 12, 2014, is a revised edition comprising 320 pages in English. This book presents insights from three former government officials who critically assess the foreign policy decisions made by American leaders over the past two decades. They highlight the failures and inadequacies that have characterized these decisions and propose effective strategies for the nation to correct its course.
Readers will find a thorough examination of the increasingly partisan and ideological nature of U.S. foreign policy, as the authors argue that each new administration often disavows the previous one, leading to repeated policy failures. The book details how these leaders have become ensnared in foreign policy challenges and offers concrete measures aimed at helping America navigate these complexities. With a focus on political science, public policy, and immigration, this work invites readers to consider the implications of past decisions and the potential for future improvements.
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Three former government officials rethink the foreign policy decisions of America’s leaders as they detail their failures and inadequacies and propose effective new moves the nation could make to self-correct.
The authors of Our Own Worst Enemy, each of which have held high positions in the State Department and Pentagon, argue that for more than 20 years the United States has been experiencing a nervous breakdown concerning the making of foreign policy.
As foreign policy continuously becomes more partisan and ideological, and each president disavows his predecessor as he starts anew, the authors describe how America has watched its leaders repeatedly trap themselves in foreign policy debacles.
Within the pages of this book, I.M. Destler, Leslie H. Gelb, and Anthony Lake propose clear and effective measures by which America may extricate itself from the political quagmire it is repeatedly placed in.
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