Even i can say that its a vast understatement to say that we are living through a moment of profound upheaval by the domestic landscape. The american primacy is in the Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is in preoccupation. People lose perspective and to lurch from the illusion of neatly restoring our yen up oral dominance and the equally illusory idea that we can disengage from the rest of the world and focus on ourselves. What rebecca and mira have done in this illuminating book in an extraordinarily thoughtful and historically grounded am at least sensible approach to reinventing u. S. Foreignpolicy mindful of the limits of our power but optimistic about its possibilities. Their strategy of openness marries the crucial importance of discipline and restraint in an appreciation of the potential of the hand that we still have to play and a number of other players especially our allies and partners who share a broad interest in the world. None of that should surprise us because mira and
Apology. At todays rates if late feed had been amid that i would hey totaled more than 10,000. Booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv. Org. Im bill burns, im at the president of the cash anything gee Carnegie Endowment for billion and im die lighted to welcome Rebecca Lissner and mira rapphooper and their become, an open world. Recovering diplomats like me are sometimes prone to understatement, but even i can see that it its a vast understatement to say that were living through a moment of profound upheaval on both the international and landscape. Domestic landscape. The post colored world war primacy is in Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is dimly lit and domestic preoccupation its easy to lose be and to leach from restoring our uniolaugh dominance to equally ill losery idea we can disenavailable from the rest thereof he world and focus only only ourselveses but rebecca and mira have done in this n
he also talked about america is open for business a lot and he talked about the importance of security to prosperity and the need for the world to come along with us in those efforts. if i was going to criticize anything, i would say that on trade he s still completely wrong-headed about this. he talked about intellectual property theft. i ll give him that. that s a big problem. but in terms of countries that subsidize their exports and do central planning which he said shouldn t be allowed in the international trade regime, we already know that s a failed strategy and that is not a reason not to trade with other countries. paul: and it does seem that the mood there at davos a year ago it would have been trepidation. six months ago it would have been horror. and now i think it s almost okay, this is the tax reform growth. so maybe this is not going to be the catastrophe for america that we thought. i think what he explained was
it short and sweet. he also talked about america is open for business a lot and he talked about the importance of security to prosperity and the need for the world to come along with us in those efforts. if i was going to criticize anything, i would say that on trade he s still completely wrong-headed about this. he talked about intellectual property theft. i ll give him that. that s a big problem. but in terms of countries that subsidize their exports and do central planning which he said shouldn t be allowed in the international trade regime, we already know that s a failed strategy and that is not a reason not to trade with other countries. paul: and it does seem that the mood there at davos a year ago it would have been trepidation. six months ago it would have been horror. and now i think it s almost okay, this is the tax reform growth. so maybe this is not going to be the catastrophe for america that