A comprehensive assessment of one of the most critical and turbulent periods in the history of US foreign policy.





Based on extensive research

Demonstrates how 9/11 has redrawn the map of the strategic world in much the same way as the Cold War did after 1947

Argues that in spite of the Bush administration's many well publicized failures - most obviously in Iraq - in a number of areas its foreign policy overall has been more successful than critics are prepared to concede

Concludes that there will be very little change in US foreign policy even when Bush has left the White House

Evaluates the United States' long-term loss of international influence and how 'The American Century' may at last be over