National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear (2014) is a book by David Rothkopf. Rothkopf examines how fear after September 11 shaped American foreign-policy decision-making in the Bush and Obama years. He portrays the personalities and institutional habits inside the national security world that turned threat perception into lasting policy. Cabinet rooms and Situation Room habits get as much attention as doctrine.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is David Rothkopf's "National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear." This book helps remind us that since 9/11 America has been too fearful, too reactive, too tactical in its foreign policy. We saw that with ISIS, which tried to bait Washington with vivid and vicious videos and it succeeded. Rothkopf also describes how the system of decision making in Washington has broken down. This is an important book about the process of foreign policy.”