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Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and triumphs, and potential futures into a coherent tale, with well-defined characters and plot lines, these narratives impart meaning to global events, define the boundaries of legitimate politics, and thereby shape national security policy. However, we know little about why or how such narratives rise and fall. Drawing on insights from diverse fields, Narrative and the Making of US National Security offers novel arguments about where these dominant narratives come from, how they become dominant, and when they collapse. It evaluates these arguments carefully against evidence drawn from US debates over national security from the 1930s to the 2000s, and shows how these narrative dynamics have shaped the policies pursued by the United States.

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"During the past decade America has crossed the fine line that separates national security from national insecurity. Major misadventures like the invasion of Iraq, the embrace of torture, the expansion of domestic surveillance programs, the failure to intervene earlier in Syria, the constant shifting of "red lines" in that country or Iran, the bumbling and lack of follow-through in Libya, and the failure to stand up to abuses by "allies" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq or by rivals like Russia or Iran, have exposed how fear has warped Americans' perspectives, causing both overreaction and inaction. For over a decade, the United States has rationalized bad policies into prudent ones on an ongoing basis. David Rothkopf, CEO and Editor-at-Large of Foreign Policy, has reached out to his extraordinary network of high level contacts conducting over 100 interviews with the players who made and influence the critical international decisions of the Bush and Obama years. He asks not only how we ended up where we are, but the bigger questions about where we should be, and how U.S. leadership can be restored. Why does the U.S. defense and policy making apparatus remain largely as it was structured 70 years ago at the end of the Second World War? Why are we unable to evolve, to set aside outdated models, to better manage our resources, to find new ways to lead and to protect ourselves? And who are the key visionaries and actors who can help the US bring the age of insecurity to a close? In National Insecurity, Rothkopf offers a way forward"--

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Comment un jeune immigré, polonais et catholique, devient-il le stratège de la plus grande puissance du inonde ? Que nous révèle son parcours des évolutions de la géopolitique des Etats-Unis ? Arrivé en 1938 par paquebot à New York alors qu'il a tout juste 10 ans, admis à Harvard en 1950, Zbigniew Brzezinski s'est rapidement fait connaître comme l'un des experts les plus influents des relations internationales et l'un des meilleurs soviétologues de son temps. Avec Henry Kissinger, il incarne cette génération d'intellectuels issus de l'"université de guerre froide" qui s'est imposée en politique étrangère contre l'establishment et la vieille élite WASP. Sa carrière fulgurante le propulsera à la Maison Blanche comme conseiller à la Sécurité nationale du président Jimmy Carter, autre outsider de la politique. Dès lors, il ne cessera plus d'être consulté par les présidents américains jusqu'à Barack Obama, et son autorité dans le débat international se fera sentir sur tous les dossiers importants de notre temps, de la guerre d'Afghanistan à la chute du mur de Berlin, de l'intervention en Irak à la montée en puissance de la Chine. Un document exceptionnel sur la politique étrangère américaine et sur l'une de ses personnalités les plus marquantes.

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