![]() ![]() His game plan was controversial and his opponents thought the president was naïve, but in the end, Bush succeeded. By trying to engage Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then pursuing to integrate the new Russia into a new world order, the stakes for Bush the Elder were high. The 41st president faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell. Bush played a decisive role in these developments. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War was the most transformative event of the late 20th century. Any American president would be well advised to ask himself or herself: “What would Bush Sr. Therefore, the presidents’ stellar leadership in historic times of upheaval can serve as a role model for future and current American presidents. Roosevelt at the height of World War II, Bush the Elder’s administration guided America well through years of global upheaval. Facing one of the most complex and overlapping global evolutions since Franklin D. Bush’s foreign policy stands out as the gold standard of American leadership. into a quagmire in Iraq and Barack Obama has to deal with a resurgent Russia, a Sunni insurgency in Iraq and Syria, and transatlantic tensions, George H. While much of Bush the Elder’s rehabilitation previously seems to have been the result of the former president’s pleasant personality and personal decency - and, obviously, his funny socks - American academics and journalists are now also starting to reassess the 41st`s presidency. “History is beginning to recognize that George Bush was the best one-term president in American history,” James Baker, the former secretary of state and a friend of Bush the Elder, recently told the New York Times. Benefiting from a wave of historical revisionism, America’s 41st president, once largely portrayed as the biggest incumbent loser since William Howard Taft, is today portrayed as the most popular former president of the past half century, according to Gallup polls. Recently, however, the limelight has shifted and more than two decades after leaving the White House and twenty-five years after his inauguration, the spotlight is back on George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush - America’s 41st president - almost seems to have been forgotten. Bush attracts media headlines with his paintings of animals and foreign leaders, George H. While Jeb Bush seems to be the hottest name in (Republican) town and George W. Bush might not have been transformational in his objectives or inspirational in his style, but he presided successfully over one of the most complex and overlapping global evolutions in the twentieth century. While Bush the Elder never was a president who could speak to people`s hopes and dreams like the likes of Kennedy, Reagan or Obama, America’s 41st president had a steady diplomatic hand which served him, Americans, and the world well. Written by prize-winning authors and filled with level-headed, far-sighted, and achievable recommendations, To Lead the World will serve as a primary source of political wisdom in the post-Bush era and will add immeasurably to the policy debates surrounding the 2008 presidential election.More than twenty years after leaving office, George Herbert Walker Bush finally seems to step out of Ronald Reagan’s shadow. They argue persuasively that the kind of leadership that made the United States a great-and greatly admired-nation in the past can be revitalized to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Representing a wide range of perspectives, the writers gathered here place the current foreign-policy predicament firmly in the larger context of American and world history and draw upon realistic appraisals of both the strengths and the limits of American power. can regain its respect in the world, respond to the biggest threats now facing the country, identify reasonable foreign policy goals, manage the growing debt burden, achieve greater national security, and successfully engage a host of other problems left unsolved and in many cases exacerbated by the Bush Doctrine. Best-selling authors such as David Kennedy, Niall Ferguson, Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama, and Samantha Power address such issues as how the U.S. Legro bring together eleven of America's most esteemed writers and thinkers to offer concrete, historically grounded suggestions for how America can regain its standing in the world and use its power more wisely than it has during the Bush years. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged down in a seemingly endless and unwinnable war. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]()
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