Dangerous Nation

Download or read book Dangerous Nation written by Robert Kagan and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common perception of the United States is as an isolationist nation with little regard for the rest of the World. From Washington's farewell address to the Monroe Doctrine America's tradition of isolation and separation has been confirmed again and again. Or so it is widely assumed.In Dangerous Nation Robert Kagan demonstrates that whilst we tend to believe that Americans do not care what happens in most of the rest of the world, this is in fact not the case. Dangerous Nation argues that Americans would be better off if they understood their nation's history better. The pervasive myth of America as isolationist and passive until provoked rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of America's foreign policies. Robert Kagan's book sets the historical record straight and reveals an America that is as ambitious as it is expansionist.