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<\/a><\/p>\nAndrew Bacevich,<\/a>\u00a0Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published book, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory\u00a0<\/em>(Metropolitan Books, 2020), argues that the United States\u2019 botched handling of the Cold War\u2019s aftermath gave rise to Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n In a January 14, 2020 story in\u00a0BU Today\u00a0<\/em>entitled \u201cAndrew Bacevich on Winning the Cold War, Then Blowing the Cole Peace,<\/a>”\u00a0journalist Rich Barlow reviews the new book.<\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n Bacevich argues that the country\u2019s intelligentsia and leadership shared a consensus built on four misguided precepts after the Wall and Soviet Union both fell: globalization and capitalism would enrich the world; an expensive US military could enforce global stability; expansive freedom untethered from self-restraint would reform our domestic culture; and the American presidency was inflated like a political Macy\u2019s balloon to become the all-important center of government, contrary to the Founding Fathers\u2019 intent.<\/p>\n Bacevich writes that the detritus of this consensus\u2014economic inequality, endless wars, spiritual emptiness and accompanying social problems\u2014helped Donald Trump win the White House.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Andrew Bacevich\u2019s essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications including\u00a0<\/span>The Wilson Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>The National Interest<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Foreign Affairs<\/em>,<\/span>Foreign Policy<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>The Nation<\/em>, and\u00a0<\/span>The New Republic<\/em>. His op-eds have appeared in the\u00a0<\/span>New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Financial Times<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Boston Globe<\/em>, and\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, among other newspapers.\u00a0In 2004, Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. You can read more about him\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich publishes new book: “The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14433,"featured_media":41697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[1163,9099,11490,8382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40485"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49676,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485\/revisions\/49676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}