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Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy
Author(s): Monica Duffy Toft (Author), Sidita Kushi (Author)
- Publisher: OUP USA
- Publication Date: 27 July 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 0197581439
- ISBN-13: 9780197581438
Book Description
Each chapter highlights the ways in which the US used and balanced primary tools of statecraft―war, trade, and diplomacy―to achieve its objectives. It showcases, however, that in recent decades, the US has heavily favored force over the other pillars of statecraft. The book concludes with a warning that if the US does not reduce its reliance on kinetic diplomacy, it may do irrevocable damage to its diplomatic corps and doom itself to costly wars of choice. If this trend continues, it could spell disaster for the US’s image, its credibility, and―ultimately―its ability to help maintain international stability.
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Review
Drawing on a thorough analysis of all America’s wars since its foundation (and there have been many) this is a sobering and vigorous critique, warning against American exceptionalism and overdependence on armed force. ―
Sir Lawrence Freedman is the Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College LondonIn
Dying by the Sword, Monica Toft and Sidita Kushi document and analyze what has become the constant use of US military force abroad. Noting the United States’ vague military and political objectives and the range of indifferent successes to catastrophic failures of these military interventions, the authors make a crucial contribution to the study of war, the use of the military tool for political ends, and U.S. foreign policy. ― Jacqueline Hazelton, Executive Editor of International Security, and former Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, the US Naval War CollegeHighly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. ―
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