Power, Terror, Peace, and War America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

International affairs expert and award-winning author ofSpecial ProvidenceWalter Russell Mead here offers a remarkably clear-eyed account of American foreign policy and the challenges it faces postSeptember 11. Starting with what America represents to the world community, Mead argues that throughout its history it has been guided by a coherent set of foreign policy objectives. He places the record of the Bush administration in the context of America's historical relations with its allies and foes. And he takes a hard look at the international scenefrom despair and decay in the Arab world to tumult in Africa and Asiaand lays out a brilliant framework for tailoring America's grand strategy to our current and future threats. Balanced, persuasive, and eminently sensible,Power, Terror, Peace, and Waris a work of extraordinary significance on the role of the United States in the world today.

Walter Russell Mead, the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of Mortal Splendor and Special Providence, which won the Lionel Gelber Award for best book on international affairs in English for the year 2002. He is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times; has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker; and is a regular reviewer of books on the United States for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mead also lectures regularly on American foreign policy. He lives in Jackson Heights, New York.