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Responding to issues of continuing if not heightened relevance to modern day argument, America at the Brink of Empire explores the international policy authority of Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger regarding the extent of the United States' objective to insure a well balanced world order. Lawrence W. Serewicz argues that in the Vietnam issue america experienced an id problems - a in close proximity to Machiavellian instant - whereby America came close to presuming an imperial role, stretching the country to the limitations of its id as a republic. Serewicz offers a revealing go through the parts played by Rusk and Kissinger - and Leader Lyndon Johnson - in bringing the country to the brink of empire in the years 1963-75. As a true believer in liberal internationalism, Rusk placed the level by determining the conflict in Vietnam as a danger to the globe order predicated on the United Nations security system created after World Warfare II. Johnson retained an open-ended dedication in Vietnam without a clear goal around the corner even as he pursued the ambitious domestic reforms of the Great Society. In refusing to select from either an imperial objective or a true republican position for the country, he brought it perilously near to becoming an empire, in the end failing woefully to achieve his goals either at home or overseas. Kissinger corrected for Johnson's overreach, employing a pragmatic realism structured upon the basic principle that america is an ordinary country - a republic, not an empire - within the international community and for that reason must balance its commitments with its resources. In concluding, Serewicz demonstrates on the continuing relevance of the Machiavellian instant for america by watching the variations and similarities between your presidencies of Johnson and George W. Bush. The reserve is publicized by Louisiana Point out University Press.

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