Chapter 1: Today’s World and Tomorrow’s
1. United States Census Bureau, “Exhibit 6. Exports, Imports, and Trade Balance by Country and Area, Not Seasonally Adjusted: 2014,” census.gov, http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/2014pr/12/exh6s.pdf.
2. European Commission, “Client and Supplier Countries of the EU28 in Merchandise Trade (2013, excluding intra-EU trade),” ec.europa.eu, August 27, 2014, http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2006/September/tradoc_/22530.pdf.
3. “Data Protection: Angela Merkel Proposes Europe Network,” BBC News, February 15, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26210053.
4. Jim Yardley and Gardiner Harris, “2nd Day of Power Failures Cripples Wide Swath of India,” New York Times, July 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
5. Jonathan Watts, “Brazil Protests Erupt over Public Services and World Cup Costs,” Guardian, June 18, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/18/brazil-protests-erupt-huge-scale; Simon Romero, “Thousands Gather for Protests in Brazil’s Largest Cities,” New York Times, June 17, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/world/americas/thousands-gather-for-protests-in-brazils-largest-cities.html?_r=0.
6. Anushay Hossain, “Beyond the Sycamore Trees: What the Turkey Protests Really Represent,” Forbes, June 9, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2013/06/09/beyond-the-sycamore-trees-what-the-turkey-protests-really-represent/.
7. See Daniel W. Drezner’s book The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
8. Peter Apps, “East-West Military Gap Rapidly Shrinking: Report,” Reuters, March 8, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/08/us-world-military-idUSTRE7273UB20110308.
9. Thomas E. Donilon, the Landon Lecture, Council on Foreign Relations, April 14, 2014, http://www.cfr.org/united-states/landon-lecture/p32846.
10. Robert Farley, “Does the U.S. Navy Have 10 or 19 Aircraft Carriers?” The Diplomat, April 17, 2014, http://thediplomat.com/2014/04/does-the-us-navy-have-10-or-19-aircraft-carriers/.
11. The best example was French president Charles de Gaulle’s decision in 1966 to withdraw France from NATO’s military structures and expel NATO troops from French territory.
12. “An Acronym with Capital,” Economist, July 19, 2014, http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607851-setting-up-rivals-imf-and-world-bank-easier-running-them-acronym; Chris Hogg, “China Banks Lend More Than World Bank—Report,” BBC News, January 18, 2011, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12212936.
13. Peter Wong, “Renminbi Challenging US Dollar Hegemony as Global Economic Gravity Moves East,” The Nation (Thailand), September 2, 2014, http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Renminbi-challenging-US-dollar-hegemony-as-global--30242259.html.
14. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, “Public See U.S. Power Declining as Support for Global Engagement Slips,” December 3, 2013, http://www.people-press.org/2013/12/03/public-sees-u-s-power-declining-as-support-for-global-engagement-slips/.
15. Charlie Campbell, “Germany, Brazil Take NSA Spying Gripes to U.S.,” Time, October 25, 2013, http://world.time.com/2013/10/25/germany-brazil-take-nsa-spying-gripes-to-u-n/.
16. U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “The Benefits of International Trade,” https://www.uschamber.com/international/international-policy/benefits-international-trade-0.
17. “Trading Up” (editorial), National Review, July 9, 2010, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243435/trading-editors.
18. Donilon, Landon Lecture.
19. See the following examples: Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on America’s Energy Security” (March 30, 2011), White House, Office of the Press Secretary, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/30/remarks-president-americas-energy-security; George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” (January 23, 2007), White House, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070123-2.html; Bill Clinton, “The President’s Radio Address” (March 18, 2000), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58262; George H. W. Bush, “Remarks at a Briefing on Energy Policy” (February 20, 1991), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19318&st=energy+policy&st1=; Ronald Reagan, “Statement on Signing the Energy Emergency Preparedness Act of 1982” (August 3, 1982), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42816&st=foreign+oil&st1=; Jimmy Carter, “Energy Address to the Nation” (April 5, 1979), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32159&st=Iran&st1=; Gerald Ford, “Address to the Nation on Energy Programs” (May 27, 1975), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4942&st=foreign+oil&st1=; Richard Nixon, “The President’s News Conference” (February 25, 1974), Miller Center, http://millercenter.org/president/nixon/speeches/speech-3888.
20. Ángel González, “Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S. Wean Itself from Mideast,” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304441404577480952719124264.
21. “World Energy Outlook 2012 Factsheet,” http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2012/factsheets.pdf; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2012, http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/publications/weo-2012/.
22. UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, http://esa.un.org/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2012_HIGHLIGHTS.pdf.
23. Gayle Smith, “U.S. Global Development Lab Launches to Develop and Scale Solutions to Global Challenges,” USAID, April 4, 2014, http://blog.usaid.gov/2014/04/u-s-global-development-lab-launches-to-develop-and-scale-solutions-to-global-challenges/.
Chapter 2: Incoherent America
1. Gorbachev’s December 7, 1988, speech at the United Nations is widely available online; for a written transcript of excerpts of the speech, see http://astro.temple.edu/~rimmerma/gorbachev_speech_to_UN.htm.
2. George H. W. Bush, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress” (September 11, 1990), Miller Center, http://millercenter.org/president/bush/speeches/speech-3425.
3. George H. W. Bush quoted in Kate Aurthur, “‘In a Few Days, the Mood Shifted: Why Hadn’t We Won Yet?’” New York Times, March 23, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/weekinreview/23WORD.html.
4. William J. Clinton, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on Administration Goals” (February 17, 1993), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=47232&st=Peace+Dividend&st1=.
5. Mary Elise Sarotte, “Enlarging NATO, Expanding Confusion,” New York Times, November 29, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30sarotte.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
6. World Bank, “GDP Per Capita (Current US$),” http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?page=2.
7. By the end of the Clinton administration, “Who lost Russia?” was a widely debated question in the United States. Robert D. Kaplan, “Who Lost Russia?” (review of Stephen F. Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia), New York Times, October 8, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/books/who-lost-russia.html.
8. U.S. Department of State, “China: WTP Accession and Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR),” May 24, 2000, http://www.state.gov/1997-2001-NOPDFS/regions/eap/fs-china_pntr-wto_000524.html.
9. “Between Hope and History: On Free Trade,” http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/Hope_+_History_Free_Trade.htm.
10. Martin Kelly, “Top 15 Presidential Campain Slogans,” About Education, http://americanhistory.about.com/od/elections/tp/Top-15-Presidential-Campaign-Slogans.htm.
11. Louis Jacobson, “Hillary Clinton Says Economic Stats Were 100 Times Better Under Clinton Than Ronald Reagan,” PolitiFact, July 21, 2014, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jul/21/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-economic-stats-were-100-times/.
12. “Presidential Debate Excerpts: Gov. George W. Bush vs. Vice President Al Gore” (October 12, 2000), PBS NewsHour, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics-july-dec00-for-policy_10-12/.
13. “Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina” (October 11, 2000), American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29419.
14. Joe Klein, “It’s Time for Extreme Peacekeeping,” Time, November 16, 2003, http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,543748,00.html.
15. The figure quoted here is in 2013 dollars. Sue Owen, “Obamacare Law Was ‘Funded’ and Expected to Save Billions; Not So for Medicare Part D,” PolitiFact, November 18, 2013, http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/nov/18/facebook-posts/obamacare-law-was-funded-and-expected-save-billion/.
16. Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, “Global Public Opinion in the Bush Years (2001–2008),” December 18, 2008, http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/12/18/global-public-opinion-in-the-bush-years-2001-2008/.
17. Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, July 30, 2014, http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2014-07-30qr.pdf.
18. Embassy of the United States, London, “Delivering on the Promise of Economic Statecraft,” November 17, 2012, http://london.usembassy.gov/forpol348.html.
19. “Obama’s Blurry Red Line,” FactCheck.org, September 6, 2013, http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/obamas-blurry-red-line/.
20. “Gaza-Israel Conflict: Is the Fighting Over?” BBC News, August 26, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28252155; “Gaza Crisis: Toll of Operations in Gaza,” BBC News, September 1, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28439404.
21. See Princeton University Press’s page for their edition of his writings, Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4876.html.
Chapter 3: Independent America
1. Angela Young, “Global Defense Budget Seen Climbing in 2014; First Total Increase Since 2009 as Russia Surpasses Britain and Saudi Arabia Continues Its Security Spending Spree,” International Business Times, February 6, 2014, http://www.ibtimes.com/global-defense-budget-seen-climbing-2014-first-total-increase-2009-russia-surpasses-britain-saudi.
2. The Eisenhower Project, http://www.eisenhowerproject.org/.
3. Scott McConnell, “Bob Gates’s Farewell Warning,” American Conservative, January 21, 2014, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/bob-gatess-farewell-warning/.
4. Kiran Dhillon, “Afghanistan Is the Big Winner in U.S. Foreign Aid,” Time, March 31, 2014, http://time.com/43836/afghanistan-is-the-big-winner-in-u-s-foreign-aid/.
5. “Obama Proposes 18 Percent Drop in Aid to Pakistan for Fiscal 2015,” The Nation, March 7, 2014, http://www.nation.com.pk/national/07-Mar-2014/obama-proposes-18-drop-in-aid-to-pakistan-for-fiscal-2015.
6. “1914–1918—Casualty Figures,” http://www.worldwar1.com/tlcrates.htm.
7. Derek W. Urwin, A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945, 5th ed. (New York: Routledge, 1997).
8. William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964 (New York: Little, Brown, 1978).
9. Urwin, A Political History.
10. William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
11. Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (London: Macmillan, 2000).
12. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey.
13. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?” http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258.
14. Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, “Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted,” June 13, 2012, http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/06/13/global-opinion-of-obama-slips-international-policies-faulted/.
15. Stephen Calabria, “Americans Conflicted About Which NATO Countries They’d Defend from Russia: Poll,” Huffington Post, April 1, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/americans-nato-poll_n_5069838.html.
16. Helene Cooper and Steven Erlanger, “Military Cuts Render NATO Less Formidable as Deterrent to Russia,” New York Times, March 26, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/military-cuts-render-nato-less-formidable-as-deterrent-to-russia.html?_r=0; Donald Kirk, “Okinawa Vote Rebuffs Japan, U.S. Plans for Marine Base,” Forbes, January 19, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/donaldkirk/2014/01/19/okinawa-vote-rebuffs-japan-u-s-plans-for-marine-base/.
17. For fuller treatment of these ideas, see Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (New York: Pantheon, 2006).
18. “Q&A: International Criminal Court,” BBC News, March 11, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-11809908.
19. “Hugo Chávez: The Chávez Presidency,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/108140/Hugo-Chavez/285482/The-Chavez-presidency.
20. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, “Public See U.S. Power Declining as Support for Global Engagement Slips,” December 3, 2013, http://www.people-press.org/2013/12/03/public-sees-u-s-power-declining-as-support-for-global-engagement-slips/.
21. “Madison Argued That War Is the Major Way by Which the Executive Office Increases Its Power, Patronage, and Taxing Power (1793),” Portable Library of Liberty, November 30, 2009, http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/quotes/236.html.
22. Quoted in “The Founding Fathers on the Constitution’s War Power,” War and Law League, http://warandlaw.homestead.com/files/foundin2.html.
23. Ibid.
24. Linda J. Blimes, Abstract, “The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets,” HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-006, March 2013, https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/citation.aspx?PubId=8956&type=WPN.
25. Public Citizen, NAFTA’s 2-Year Legacy and the Fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, February 2014, http://www.citizen.org/documents/NAFTA-at-20.pdf.
26. http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=4050.
27. http://angusreid.org/americans-and-canadians-feel-they-have-lost-out-with-nafta/.
28. The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that Mexico’s reforms, backed by NAFTA, have largely been a disappointment for the country. Despite dramatic increases in trade and foreign investment, economic growth has been slow and job creation has been weak.
29. Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).
30. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), “2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure,” http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/home. Subcategories: “Aviation,” http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/aviation/overview; “Transit,” http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/transit/overview; “Roads,” http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/roads/overview.
31. Ibid., “Schools,” http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/schools/overview.
32. Allie Bidwell, “American Students Fall in International Academic Tests, Chinese Lead the Pack,” USA Today, December 3, 2013, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/03/american-students-fall-in-international-academic-tests-chinese-lead-the-pack.
33. Tim Walker, “International Study Links Higher Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality,” neaToday, January 4, 2012, http://neatoday.org/2012/01/04/international-study-links-higher-teacher-pay-and-student-performance/.
34. Agence France-Presse, “Study: Iraq, Afghan Wars to Cost U.S. Up to $6 Trillion,” Defense News, March 29, 2013, http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130329/DEFREG02/303290018/Study-Iraq-Afghan-Wars-Cost-U-S-Up-6-Trillion.
35. Colonel Jack Jacobs, U.S. Army (Ret.), “Want to Fix VA Health Care? Get Rid of It,” ABC News, May 14, 2014, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/va-hospital-scandal/want-fix-va-health-care-get-rid-it-n106601.
Chapter 4: Moneyball America
1. U.S. Energy Information Administration, “World Oil Transit Chokepoints,” http://www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics.cfm?fips=wotc&trk=p3.
2. “Strait of Hormuz: The World’s Key Oil Choke Point,” National Geographic, http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/strait-of-hormuz/.
3. U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Five States and the Gulf of Mexico Produce More Than 80% of U.S. Crude Oil,” March 31, 2014, http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15631.
4. Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New York: Norton, 2003).
5. Jeffrey Goldberg, “Breaking Ranks,” New Yorker, October 31, 2005, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/31/breaking-ranks.
6. Council on Foreign Relations, “Profile: Osama bin Laden,” http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-leaders/profile-osama-bin-laden/p9951#p6.
7. Anna Fifield, “Contractors Reap $138bn from Iraq War,” Financial Times, March 18, 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f435f04-8c05-11e2-b001-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3HN0d1Has.
8. Costs of War, http://costsofwar.org/.
9. David W. Moore, “Americans Believe U.S. Participation in Gulf War a Decade Ago Worthwhile,” Gallup, February 26, 2001, http://www.gallup.com/poll/1963/amer . . . orthwhile.aspx.
10. “Iraq . . . and ISIS,” PollingReport.com, November 21–23, 2014, http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm.
11. “Iraq War Illegal, Says Annan,” BBC News, September 16, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/3661134.stm.
12. “Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing Fast Facts,” CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/.
13. “Interview: Caspar Weinberger,” Frontline, September 2001, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/interviews/weinberger.html.
14. See Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (New York: Pantheon, 2006), 122–23, though the idea of sustaining regional balances of power to keep the peace is an idea much older than the United States of America.
15. Ibid., 3.
16. Craig Whitlock, “U.S. Expands Secret Intelligence Operations in Africa,” Washington Post, June 13, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-expands-secret-intelligence-operations-in-africa/2012/06/13/gJQAHyvAbV_story.html.
17. Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist: How the Arab Spring Remade Obama’s Foreign Policy,” New Yorker, May 2, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/02/the-consequentialist.
18. Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, “NATO’s Success in Libya,” New York Times, October 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/31iht-eddaalder31.html?_r=1&.
19. “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney” (October 20, 2011), White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/20/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney.
20. Raphael Cohen and Gabriel Scheinmann, “Lessons from Libya: America Can’t Lead from Behind,” Time, February 15, 2014, http://ideas.time.com/2014/02/15/lessons-from-libya-america-cant-lead-from-behind/.
21. For a fuller explanation of this idea, see my book The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).
22. U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Japan,” http://www.eia.gov/countries/cab.cfm?fips=JA.
23. Christina Larson, “Water Shortages Will Limit Global Shale Gas Development, Especially in China,” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 2, 2014, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-02/water-shortages-will-limit-global-shale-gas-development-especially-in-china.
24. Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World (New York: Basic Books, 1986).
25. See Lieven and Hulsman, Ethical Realism.
26. Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State.
27. UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), “Global Foreign Direct Investment Declined by 18% in 2012, Annual Report Says,” press release, June 25, 2013, http://unctad.org/en/pages/PressRelease.aspx?OriginalVersionID=143.
28. “Marshall Plan,” Digital History, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=4077.
29. Urwin, A Political History.
30. Lieven and Hulsman, Ethical Realism, 80–83.
Chapter 5: Indispensable America
1. China passed the United States as the world’s biggest trading nation, as measured by the sum of exports and imports, in 2012 after six decades of U.S. dominance. “China Overtakes US as World’s Largest Trading Country,” RT.com, February 11, 2013, http://rt.com/business/china-us-largest-trading-country-908/.
2. Ted Plafker, “A Year Later, China’s Stimulus Package Bears Fruit,” New York Times, October 22, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/business/global/23iht-rglobalchin.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS),” http://www.cdc.gov/sars/; ibid., “Fact Sheet: Basic Information About SARS,” http://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-SARS.pdf.
4. World Health Organization, “Cumulative Number of Confirmed Cases of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Reported to WHO,” http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/H5N1_cumulative_table_archives/en/; “H5N1 Avian Flu (H5N1 Bird Flu),” Flu.gov, http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/h5n1/.
5. For a fuller treatment of this idea, see my book The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).
6. For a more detailed discussion of both the North Korea and climate opportunities in U.S.-Chinese relations, see Bruce Jentleson, “Strategic Recalibration: Framework for a 21st-Century National Security Strategy,” Washington Quarterly, March 1, 2014, http://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/strategic-recalibration-framework-21st-century-national-security-strategy.
7. Oxfam, “Foreign Aid 101: A Quick and Easy Guide to Understanding US Foreign Aid,” http://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/foreign-aid-101/.
8. International Monetary Fund, “About the IMF,” https://www.imf.org/external/about.htm.
9. Ibid., “History,” http://www.imf.org/external/about/history.htm; ibid., “Our Work,” http://www.imf.org/external/about/ourwork.htm.
10. For an excellent elaboration of the history of democracy promotion in U.S. foreign policy, see Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (New York: Knopf, 2001), chapter 5: “The Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur: Wilsonianism and Its Mission.”
11. Ivan Perkins, “Why Don’t Democracies Fight Each Other?” Washington Post, June 20, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/20/by-ivan-perkins-why-dont-democracies-fight-each-other/.
12. “List of Countries by GDP (PPP) Per Capita,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita.
13. For a broader discussion of democracy promotion, see Sean M. Jones, “Why the United States Should Spread Democracy,” Discussion Paper 98-07, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, March 1998, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2830/why_the_united_states_should_spread_democracy.html.
Chapter 6: Question Mark America
1. “Remarks by the President at the Air Force Academy Commencement” (May 23, 2012), White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/23/remarks-president-air-force-academy-commencement.
2. “Weekly Address: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class” (July 27, 2013), White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/27/weekly-address-better-bargain-middle-class.
3. Mike Allen, “‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh—’ (Stuff),” Politico, June 1, 2014, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/dont-do-stupid-shit-president-obama-white-house-107293.html.
4. Jeffrey Goldberg, “Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure’ to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS,” Atlantic, August 10, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/hillary-clinton-failure-to-help-syrian-rebels-led-to-the-rise-of-isis/375832/.
5. Mark Landler, “Obama Could Replace Aides Bruised by a Cascade of Crises,” New York Times, October 29, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/mounting-crises-raise-questions-on-capacity-of-obamas-team.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1.
6. Jane Perlez, “China and Russia Reach 30-Year Gas Deal,” New York Times, May 21, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/world/asia/china-russia-gas-deal.html?_r=0.
7. Tim Hanrahan, “Obama Transcript: NATO Will Defend Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,” Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2014, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/03/obama-transcript-nato-will-defend-estonia-latvia-lithuania/.
8. Reynolds Holding, “U.S. Justice Seems to Fall Harder on Foreign Companies,” New York Times, July 1, 2014, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/u-s-justice-seems-to-fall-harder-on-foreign-companies/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0; “Capital Punishment: France’s Largest Bank Gets Fined for Evading American Sanctions,” Economist, July 5, 2014, http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21606321-frances-largest-bank-gets-fined-evading-american-sanctions-capital-punishment; Kara Scannell, “BNP Pleads Guilty to Sanctions Violations and Faces $8.9bn Fine,” Financial Times, June 30, 2014, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/db2daede-009c-11e4-9a62-00144feab7de.html#axzz3I2ILAhW1; “US Mortgage Giant Attacks UBS and Credit Suisse,” SWI, November 1, 2013, http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/us-mortgage-giant-attacks-ubs-and-credit-suisse/37241690; Halah Touryalai, “Tale of Two Swiss Banks: Why Wegelin Failed and UBS Survived Tax Evasion Charges,” Forbes, January 4, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/01/04/tale-of-two-swiss-banks-why-wegelin-failed-and-ubs-survived-tax-evasion-charges/.
9. Michael R. Gordon and Kareem Fahim, “Kerry Says Egypt’s Military Was ‘Restoring Democracy’ in Ousting Morsi,” New York Times, August 1, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/middleeast/egypt-warns-morsi-supporters-to-end-protests.html?_r=1&.
10. “Obama’s Blurry Red Line,” FactCheck.org., September 6, 2013, http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/obamas-blurry-red-line/.
11. According to the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, “this statement is often attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, but no known source can be found to verify the attribution.”
Conclusion
1. Chris Cillizza, “The Single Most Depressing Number in the New NBC–Wall Street Journal Poll,” Washington Post, August 6, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/06/the-single-most-depressing-number-in-the-new-nbc-wall-street-journal-poll/.
2. David Rolman, “How Technology Is Destroying Jobs,” MIT Technology Review, June 12, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/.