The Age of Illusions
The Age of Illusions A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of…
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The Age of Illusions
A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. For the world's "indispensable nation," its "sole superpower," the future looked very bright. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible.
They would embrace the promise of globalization as a source of unprecedented wealth while embarking on wide-ranging military campaigns to suppress History, having brought the United States to the very summit of power and prestige, had validated American-style liberal democratic capitalism as universally applicable.In the decades to come, Americans would put that claim to the test.