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    Summary of Stephen M. Walt's The Hell of Good Intentions
    Summary of Stephen M. Walt's The Hell of Good Intentions
    Summary of Stephen M. Walt's The Hell of Good Intentions
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    #1 After the Soviet Union collapsed, America could have taken a well-earned victory lap and reconsidered its expansive grand strategy. But instead, they expanded their global commitments and continued to shape events around the world.

    #2 The United States was not a status quo power. Having won the Cold War, American leaders set out to create a liberal world order through the active use of U. S. power. However, this did not make the United States safer, stronger, or more popular.

    #3 When the Cold War ended, the United States was in a position of global primacy unlike any other since the Roman Empire. It had the world’s largest and most advanced economy, and it produced roughly 25 percent of the world’s goods and services.

    #4 The strategic situation was not entirely rosy, of course, but the dangers that concerned U. S. leaders after the Cold War were far less dangerous than the threats the United States had faced in the past.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateApr 29, 2022
    ISBN9781669399063
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      #1

      After the Soviet Union collapsed, America could have taken a well-earned victory lap and reconsidered its expansive grand strategy. But instead, they expanded their global commitments and continued to shape events around the world.

      #2

      The United States was not a status quo power. Having won the Cold War, American leaders set out to create a liberal world order through the active use of U. S. power. However, this did not make the United States safer, stronger, or more popular.

      #3

      When the Cold War ended, the United States was in a position of global primacy unlike any other since the Roman Empire. It had the world’s largest and most advanced economy, and it produced roughly 25 percent of the world’s goods and services.

      #4

      The strategic situation was not entirely rosy, of course, but the dangers that concerned U. S. leaders after the Cold War were far less dangerous than the threats the United States had faced in the past.

      #5

      In the 1990s, the tides of history appeared to be flowing America’s way. victory in the Cold War seemed to be a striking vindication of America’s core ideals of individual liberty, free elections, and open markets. The spread of liberal norms and institutions seemed to be closely linked to hopes for significant progress in human rights.

      #6

      However, these same pundits saw the United States as the linchpin of this new economic order. The U. S. economy performed well during the 1990s, and American power was the foundation on which globalization supposedly rested.

      #7

      After the first Gulf War, the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference made a promising start toward resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Then, in 1993, the Oslo Accords brought new hope that the elusive final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians might finally become a reality.

      #8

      The United States had long sought to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons, and had labored to create the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The country seemed to be in an excellent position to keep the lid on it.

      #9

      The United States was in the catbird seat after the Cold War. It was richer and stronger than any other major power, and it was allied with most of them. It faced no peer competitors or existential dangers.

      #10

      The United States is in worse shape today than it was in 1992 in nearly every aspect of foreign policy. The unipolar moment was surprisingly brief, and the strategic environment has deteriorated sharply.

      #11

      When the unipolar era began, the United States was the sole great power. Russia

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