Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad

by Alan Cutis (Editor), Kevin Phillip (Foreword by), Eric Alterman Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Contribution by), Phyllis A. Bennis (Contribution by), Sophie Body-Gendrot (Contribution by)

Overview

Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community? This book answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots—to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance, and voting reform policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742542167
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/09/2004
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.56(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.27(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Big Picture
Chapter 3 The Challenge of Managing Dominance
Chapter 3 National Security in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4 A Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done?
Chapter 5 Does America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity?
Chapter 6 The Courage to Keep On Talking
Chapter 7 The European Mistrust of American Leadership
Chapter 8 America Needs Europe
Chapter 9 Challenging Empire: The United Nations in a New Internationalism
Chapter 10 Speaking Truth to Power: Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force
Chapter 11 American Foreign Policy: A Tragic "Success"
Chapter 12 Concern and Credibility
Chapter 13 The Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged
Chapter 14 Security and Democracy in the Post-September 11 Era
Chapter 15 Village Democracy and Presidential Leadership
Chapter 16 Domino Democracy: Challenges to United States Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East
Chapter 17 American Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution
Chapter 18 Awakening the American Political Debate on Palestine and Israel
Chapter 19 The Future Political and Economic Architecture of the Middle East
Chapter 20 We Are Still All Americans
Chapter 21 The Financial, Political, and Moral Deficits of the American Empire
Chapter 22 The Coming Budget Crisis and the Rising Threat of Large-Scale Federal Disinvestment
Chapter 23 Full Employment and the Perils of Empire
Chapter 24 Concentrated Power Without Responsibility
Chapter 25 The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
Chapter 26 The Failure of "Free Market Tough State" Ideology
Chapter 27 September 11 and the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 28 The Missing Debate
Chapter 29 It is Time to Break the Silence
Chapter 30 Civil Liberties and Effective Investigation
Chapter 31 Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement
Chapter 32 Electronic Advocacy and Fundraising: The State of the Art
Chapter 33 Electronic Counter-Power and Collective Action
Chapter 34 Independent Reporting and The People's Media
Chapter 35 Lessons from 1964
Chapter 36 Thieves in High Places:They're Stealing Our Country, and It's Time to Take It Back
Chapter 37 Generating Political Hope in a Time of Fear
Chapter 38 Who Has the Emerging Majority Now?
Chapter 39 American Politics and Policy: We Don't Have Time to Despair

Editorial Reviews

This is one of the clearest, most important books of our time written by some of the most insightful and provocative experts. It is a truth-telling book that makes the connections from individual failures to the comprehensive indictment of what is wrong with America. This one book says it all with some of the most honest voices of our time.

Celinda Lake

[Takes] a hard look at the United States and suggests practical alternatives to present policies.

The Review of Higher Education

This volume can only help restore America's promise at home and abroad.

Kevin Phillips

Enormously important.

Theodore C. Sorensen

How do you get to the American people? They are aware of what is happening to some extent. It's the solutions that they need and we have failed. Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense can begin to reverse that. It offers a cogent and comprehensive policy prescription that people can understand.

Ian Williams

[Takes] a hard look at the United States and suggests practical alternatives to present policies.

Review Of Higher Education

[Takes] a hard look at the United States and suggests practical alternatives to present policies.

Washington Post