Foreword and Introduction

Abstract

When a writer inflicts another book on the world, especially one about a complex and well-covered subject, the reader is owed an explanation. The fundamental reason I’ve written this book is because the term “American foreign policy” has become a misnomer. That is because the American approach to the world beyond its borders has ceased to be either a policy or a response to opportunities and challenges abroad. The aim of this book is to explain why this has come about and why such an approach has grave implications even for the world’s only superpower.