From Foreign Affairs, a review of books about power and US foreign policy. A review of Five Roads to the Future: Power in the Next Global Age by Paul Starobin. A panel on The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era by Clyde Prestowitz. Behind the Pentagon’s facade of honourable motives for invading other countries lies a history of promoting violence and covering up atrocities with wars of misinformation. Eric Reeves on Sudan's next war and the failure of US leadership. “We’re No. 1 and have to keep deserving it” has been both an attractive and a useful attitude for America; the current rise of “We’re No. 2” thinking threatens to be the reverse. More and more and more and more and more and more and more on The Icarus Syndrome by Peter Beinart. Think Again: Ronald Reagan wasn't the warhound his conservative followers would have you think. How the US got Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric dead wrong — and missed a chance to change the Middle East forever. Robert Kagan on Obama's 5 foreign-policy victories. From Democracy, a roundtable on America 2021: The Military and the World. A review of Reset: Iran, Turkey and America’s Future by Stephen Kinzer (and more). Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the rise of American Anglophobia. Two young State Department officials are hoping to nudge diplomacy into the 21st century one Twitter post at a time.
