Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism

By Robert Higgs

Book Overview

Broken into four sections, this book illustrates the history of American foreign policy and demonstrates the current applicability of a non-interventionist model. For the past century, U.S. foreign policy has rested on the assumption that Americans' interests are best served by active intervention abroad to secure markets for U.S. exports, to combat potential enemies far from American shores, or to engage in democratic nation building. Earlier, however, non-interventionism was widely considered more desirable and more consistent with the principles of the American Revolution. The authors argue for a return to these original American mores.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598130137
• ISBN13: 9781598130133
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Independent Institute
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great read

It has been a while since I read it but I remember liking most of the essays in it, particularly one that discusses the economic incompetence and at times sheer cruelty of the American occupation of Germany after WWII. The one thing I did not like about the book is the same thing I did not like about Higgs' Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government (Independent Studies in Political Economy) , the title gives off this impression that the government is this pure evil/oppressor/crusader which I don't think it is and can turn off a lot of potential readers. So if you find the title to seem a little of a turn off, get it anyways, I think anyone who reads it will have gained a great amount of important information, which is something that can be said about any book written by Higgs.