The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
Written by Robert Kagan
Narrated by Jason Culp
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A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world—and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos—that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.
Robert Kagan
ROBERT KAGAN served in the State Department from 1984 to 1998. He is the author of the international bestseller Paradise & Power and co-editor with William Kristol of Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defence Policy. He is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He lives in Brussels with his wife adn two children. Dangerous Nation was published by Atlantic Books in 2006.
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Reviews for The Jungle Grows Back
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author does a fantastic job laying out the facts on why we should not take the relative peace that we have enjoyed since world war 2 lightly. It takes effort and it takes engagement. Liberal democracy has flaws but the alternatives are not that great.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short and sweet with a thoughtful perspective on the liberal order and where it stands.