The Ghost At The Feast by Robert Kagan

An urgent diagnosis of the unraveling postwar liberal international order and America’s diminishing will to sustain it, tracing how decades of strategic complacency, domestic polarization, and the resurgence of authoritarian powers have hollowed out Western institutions and left allies adrift; through historical narrative and contemporary case studies—from NATO and Europe to Russia’s aggression and China’s ambitions—the book argues that, without renewed U.S. leadership grounded in political purpose and credible power, the fragile rules-based system that preserved relative stability will fray further with grave consequences for liberty and global security.

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