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