11. Trump's various "isolationist" moves (not affirming Article 5, pulling out of Paris Accord) meet with most resistance from big capital.
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12. In the larger scope, the luxury American foreign policy makers had in 1940s-1970s was USA so dominant it could sacrifice to allies.
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13. American global power peaked in 1945, when it had nuclear monopoly & everyone else (Europe, UK, USSR, Japan, China) shattered by war.
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14. In 1945 America had roughly half the productive wealth of the world. That was bound to decline as other nations rebuilt.
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15. As USA goes into inevitable relative decline, some sort of move towards nationalism & away from underwriting globalism was inevitable.
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16. In a better world, the move away from being sole underwriter of globalism would have led to some form of realism, say Bacevich.
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17. In our imperfect world, contradiction between national interest & globalism gave us Trump, a crackpot realist.
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18. Instead of a careful disentanglement from imperial overstrech we have Trump telling allies "show me the $$$" & rejecting climate accord
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19. All of Anderson's books are worth reading, of course. Aside from USA Foreign Policy, I'd recommend Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
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20. Other good Anderson books: Lineages of the Absolutist States, Considerations on Western Marxism, Indian Ideology, Post-Modernity
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21. "The Indian Ideology" is controversial but I liked it as a good corrective to Congress Party mythology.
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22. Anderson is a bit under-rated by academic historians because he's a synthesist & doesn't do archival research. Phooey on them.
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