The Internationalists
The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump
(Sprache: Englisch)
"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most...
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"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have been greater. Around the world, adversaries were consolidating power, allies were drifting away, wars were raging, and climate change was accelerating, all while Russia was disrupting democracies and China was seeking to replace the U.S. as the world's preeminent power. Now for the first time since World War II, the United States risked falling from its unrivaled position. If Biden and his team failed, it would likely mark the end of an American era and the rise of a fractured and autocratic world order. In The Internationalists, acclaimed national security reporter Alexander Ward takes us behind the scenes to reveal the struggle to enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global crisis. Against the failure of Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden's all-star team-of-rivals must band together against incredible odds. Their successes, and their failures, will decide not just Biden's presidency. They will decide the very course of America's global future. As The Best and The Brightest chronicled the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy Administration, and The Rise of The Vulcans detailed the inner workings of George Bush's war machine, The Internationalists takes readers behind the scenes as Joe Biden and his cabinet embark on some of the most ambitious foreign policy initiatives of any president since Richard M. Nixon. Thanks to rigorous reporting and sources in the rooms where it happened, Ward delivers the first draft of history, the first definitive, unvarnished account of the Biden
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Doctrine, from the Fall of Kabul to the Rise of Kiev"--
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Chapter 1Relearning America
November 2016 January 2021
The location was picked for what it represented. The Javits Center, a large building along the Hudson River in New York City, was wall-to-wall glass including the ceiling. The metaphor was obvious to the thousands waiting to see Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016: they would see her shatter the highest obstacle in American politics when she was elected forty-fifth president of the United States that night.
But only hearts were breaking inside the pearl of Hell s Kitchen that night. As Donald Trump won Ohio, and Florida, and Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and Michigan, the mood turned as cool as the blustery weather outside. The once jubilant atmosphere pregnant with promise had soured. Sobs rang out within the center s cavernous halls. Not until 2:00 a.m. did a member of the Clinton campaign, chairman John Podesta, come out to send the remaining hopefuls home.
You ve been here a long time and it s been a long night and it s been a long campaign, Podesta said, his words beamed across the country and around the world. We can wait a little longer!
Jake Sullivan, too, would have to wait. He had worked for Clinton for years, first at the State Department and now as one of her campaign s top policy aides. He was ready to stride back into Washington after leaving the Obama administration two years earlier, playing coy with friends and the media about whether he was plotting a return to politics. He was, and he was the odds-on favorite to be Clinton s national security adviser which would make him one of the most powerful people in the federal government.
What was supposed to be a dream night for him a crowning achievement for a man who was days from turning forty turned into a nightmare. In a Peninsula hotel room two and a half miles from the somber crowd, he watched the TV screens as the American map filled with red, not blue. When the election was called in Trump s favor, Sullivan stood
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by Clinton s side as she phoned her opponent to concede. Hearing the words Congratulations, Mr. President-Elect, he felt like a truck had run over him.
The former collegiate debater stayed up all night helping to craft Clinton s concession speech, seeking an explanation for the political earthquake he had just witnessed. He grasped for anything, everything, to make sense of the moment.
Many forces combined into a perfect storm, he reasoned with himself. There was a backlash to President Barack Obama s time in office, a demographically changing America, economic pain throughout the country, and a general animosity toward elites, such as Clinton. The inordinate focus on her emails by the media didn t help, elevating to a national scandal what Democrats argued was at most an ill-advised administrative decision.
But in New York City, Trump s hometown and decades-long playground, Sullivan realized that the foreign policy message from Clinton s opponent had played a hand in his victory too. It was by no means the most vital element of Trump s ascendancy to power, but his overall argument that U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II hadn t worked out so well for the forgotten men and women of America had clearly hit a nerve.
And when Trump critiqued the elites responsible for forgetting those millions of people, he was unwittingly criticizing Sullivan. The Minnesota boy had allowed the wealthy, glitz-loving real estate developer to beat him at populist politics, and defeat had not been a common event in his charmed and meteoritic rise.
At Southwest High School in Minneapolis, which he graduated from in 1994, Sullivan was named Most Likely to Succeed. Teachers fawned over his ability
The former collegiate debater stayed up all night helping to craft Clinton s concession speech, seeking an explanation for the political earthquake he had just witnessed. He grasped for anything, everything, to make sense of the moment.
Many forces combined into a perfect storm, he reasoned with himself. There was a backlash to President Barack Obama s time in office, a demographically changing America, economic pain throughout the country, and a general animosity toward elites, such as Clinton. The inordinate focus on her emails by the media didn t help, elevating to a national scandal what Democrats argued was at most an ill-advised administrative decision.
But in New York City, Trump s hometown and decades-long playground, Sullivan realized that the foreign policy message from Clinton s opponent had played a hand in his victory too. It was by no means the most vital element of Trump s ascendancy to power, but his overall argument that U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II hadn t worked out so well for the forgotten men and women of America had clearly hit a nerve.
And when Trump critiqued the elites responsible for forgetting those millions of people, he was unwittingly criticizing Sullivan. The Minnesota boy had allowed the wealthy, glitz-loving real estate developer to beat him at populist politics, and defeat had not been a common event in his charmed and meteoritic rise.
At Southwest High School in Minneapolis, which he graduated from in 1994, Sullivan was named Most Likely to Succeed. Teachers fawned over his ability
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Autoren-Porträt von Alexander Ward
Alexander Ward is a national security reporter at Politico. Previously, Ward was the White House and national security reporter at Vox. He was an associate director on the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He has won multiple prestigious awards for his reporting and was a part of a team that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexander Ward
- 2024, 368 Seiten, 1 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Portfolio
- ISBN-10: 0593539079
- ISBN-13: 9780593539071
Sprache:
Englisch
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"From one of the best reporters in Washington, this is the first behind-the-scenes account of the Biden Doctrine. Ward uses remarkable details to explore Biden's massively consequential foreign policy, a tenet shaped by one war the president was desperate to end and another that stunned the globe."Jonathan Lemire, host of "Way Too Early" on MSNBC, White House Bureau Chief at Politico and author of The New York Times bestseller The Big Lie.
The Internationalists offers a rapid-fire reported account of the world of challenges faced by President Biden and his administration as they sought to restore American global leadership at a time of tumult. The chapters on the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan are a particular page-turner. Most importantly, the book recounts with newsy detail how an administration that came to office planning to focus on the long-term strategic threat posed by China ended up pivoting to deal with the consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine the largest land war in Europe since World War II. The book is a testament to the virtues of having a dogged reporter on one of the most important beats in the world."
Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-author of The New York Times bestsellers The Man Who Ran Washington and The Divider
"The Internationalists is a deeply reported, propulsively written view inside the Biden administration's race to rebuild America's standing among allies and enemies alike. Alexander Ward has filled an enormous gap in our understanding of what goes on inside Washington's most important rooms. This is an essential read for anyone who cares about the wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine, and the United States' place in a complex, dangerous world."
Mitchell Zuckoff, The New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and The Secret Gate
"There are
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few reporters in America that can combine first-rate, granular reporting with the talent to weave it all together into a deft narrative that is impossible to put down. The Internationalists is a pivotal, behind-the-scenes look at the presidency of a man with more foreign-policy experience than any of his predecessors, who came into office with a national security dream team, intent on parking the problems and focusing on the strategic big picture only to have God laugh at his plan. This book is an instant classic and an indispensable look at how the Biden administration has wielded American Power."
Julia Ioffe, founding partner of Puck
Superb.
Shane Harris, senior national security writer at The Washington Post and author of @War
The most fulsome account of the Administration s foreign policy - its rationale and the people implementing it.
Phil Mattingly, coanchor of CNN This Morning
"An expert account. Simultaneously illuminating and painful.
Kirkus
Stellar.
Steven A. Cook, author of False Dawn
Vital for understanding President Biden s foreign policy.
Mark Leon Goldberg, editor of UN Dispatch and host of the "Global Dispatches" podcast
The most important book you ll read on the Biden administration.
Sean Illing, author of The Paradox of Democracy and host of The Gray Area podcast
"Excellent, revealing and newsworthy"
Michael Beschloss, author of The Presidents at War
"A must-read for anyone who wants to know the true story of how American foreign policy is made."
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and author, The Violence Inside Us
Julia Ioffe, founding partner of Puck
Superb.
Shane Harris, senior national security writer at The Washington Post and author of @War
The most fulsome account of the Administration s foreign policy - its rationale and the people implementing it.
Phil Mattingly, coanchor of CNN This Morning
"An expert account. Simultaneously illuminating and painful.
Kirkus
Stellar.
Steven A. Cook, author of False Dawn
Vital for understanding President Biden s foreign policy.
Mark Leon Goldberg, editor of UN Dispatch and host of the "Global Dispatches" podcast
The most important book you ll read on the Biden administration.
Sean Illing, author of The Paradox of Democracy and host of The Gray Area podcast
"Excellent, revealing and newsworthy"
Michael Beschloss, author of The Presidents at War
"A must-read for anyone who wants to know the true story of how American foreign policy is made."
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and author, The Violence Inside Us
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