Tomorrow, the World

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The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

By Stephen Wertheim

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Tomorrow, the World follows the United States' momentous shift from avoiding entanglement in European-style power struggles to embracing a dominant global role as an armed superpower. Stephen Wertheim traces this transformation up to the eve of Pearl Harbor, revealing how a small group of policymakers concluded that America should extend its form of order worldwide, supported by military might. The book challenges the myth of isolationism and explores the intellectual origins of U.S. global supremacy and its consequences, including the foundation of today's ongoing conflicts.
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This book is essential for readers interested in American history, foreign policy, and international relations, particularly those seeking a nuanced understanding of the origins and implications of U.S. global dominance in the twentieth century.

How did the United States appoint itself as the world’s supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives of the U.S. foreign policy elite to trace armed dominance to its origin in World War II. He shows how officials and intellectuals suddenly chose to embrace perpetual dominance—at the price of perpetual war.

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"Even in these dismal times, genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance. While Tomorrow, the World is not a long book, it is a tour de force."
-Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation

"Stephen Wertheim isn't only a great historian of American foreign policy. He uses history to offer a critique of American foreign policy that Americans desperately need now."
-Peter Beinart, author of The Icarus Syndrome

"Its implications are invigorating. Wertheim opens space for Americans to reexamine their own history and ask themselves whether primacy has ever really met their interests."
-Daniel Bessner, New Republic

"For almost 80 years now, historians and diplomats have sought not only to describe America's swift advance to global primacy but also to explain it. Any writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. Stephen Wertheim's Tomorrow, the World does both."
-Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation up to World War II, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As late as 1940, the small coterie formulating U.S. foreign policy wanted British preeminence to continue. Axis conquests swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that America should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. No one really favoured "isolationism"—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy to burnish their cause. We live, Wertheim warns, in the world these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned account that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today's endless wars.

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Critics hail Tomorrow, the World as a "tour de force" for its powerful debunking of the isolationism myth, with Andrew J. Bacevich noting its sharp critique of prevailing U.S. foreign policy assumptions. Paul Kennedy praises it for offering fresh insight and a new interpretation of America's rise to global primacy, calling it an "estimable book." The work stands out for its profound historical analysis and contribution to debates on American restraint in foreign affairs.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674271135

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: 4 Maps

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 249g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Stephen Wertheim is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Review of Books, New York Times, and Washington Post.