June's books of the month

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Thursday, June 7, 2007 - 2:45 PM Share

The book selections for June had to pass a very stringent set of criterion. Namely: which books would actually manage to engage me when I was in a distant Caribbean isle, lounging on the beach, with naptime beckoning? The general interest book is Tyler Cowen's Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures. Cowen's book considers...

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LES BRUNSWICK

7:37 PM ET

June 9, 2007

Well, yes, Kagan is right

Well, yes, Kagan is right that the U.S. has often been aggressive in the world. What the neocon's don't seem to understand very well is that you need to think out rationally whether a particular act of aggression would actually bring good results for American interests, or instead make things worse.

JOHN BILES

12:53 AM ET

June 11, 2007

Swadeshi? My own impression

Swadeshi?

My own impression is that the US populace tended to favor isolationism in the 19th and the first third of the 20th century, but that the continued involvement of the US in global trade and the growing committment to that often led the US into more aggressive policies.