Mearsheimer, one of America's leading political realists, provides new understandings of Kennan's work and explores its continued resonance. In this expanded fiftieth-anniversary edition, a substantial new introduction by John J. Keenly aware of the dangers of military intervention and the negative effects of domestic politics on foreign policy, Kennan identifies troubling inconsistencies in the areas between actions and ideals - even when the strategies in question turned out to be decided successes. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over into self-righteousness, whose ambitions conflict with power realities, whose judgmentalism precludes the interests of other states, and whose domestic politics frequently prevent prudent policies and result in overstretch. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy.
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