According to some scholars and analysts, the United States should replace its “unnecessary, ineffective and expensive” foreign policy with
According to some scholars and analysts, the United States should replace its “unnecessary, ineffective and expensive” foreign policy with a more “restrained” one. Others accuse advocates of American “retrenchment” of overstating the costs of the post-Cold War foreign policy and understating its benefits.” Discuss and evaluate both arguments in light of the debates about American national security policy and its grand strategy in international affairs.
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