Review: United States: The Reluctant Sheriff
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300218 |
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
mic
discards.
But
this
is
a
case
In yet
another
contribution
to
the
where
an
umpromising
title
belies
debate
in
the
United
States
over
an
interesting
and
useful
argument.
what
it
means to be
the
world's
Trubowitz
uses
three
case
studies
to
remaining superpower,
Haass
suggest
that
American
foreign
poli-
reminds
us
that
the
world has
cy
is
in
part
-
and
he
is
careful
to
become
a
complicated
place
since
note,
only
in
part
-
the result
of
the
Cold
War
ended.
As
befits
shifting
regional
alliances
and
com-
someone
who
worked
in
the
Bush
promises.
Students
of
the
subject
administration,
he
calls
this
'deregu-
ignore
its
regional roots at
their
lation,'
another
way
of
saying
that
peril
and at
the
risk
of misunder-
there
are
more
centres
of
power
but
standing
how
policy
is
made. some
overarching
structures
still
in
This
is
not
news
to
Canadian
place.
diplomats,
who
are
all
too familiar
He is
mercifully
clear
and
suc-
with
the
rivalry
and
sometimes
mis-
cinct
on
the
various theories
float-
chievous
hostility
of
some
northern
ing
around
about
what
this means
tier
American
politicians
-
Mon-
and
what
the
United
States
should
tanas
Max
Baucus
comes
naturally
do.
His
view
is
optimistic with
to
mind.
Allan
Gotlieb
in
his
brief
reservations;
democracy
and
the
free
memoir,
I'll
be
with
you in a
market
are
spreading
but
there
are
moment,
Mr.
Ambassador,
recounts
serious
challenges
to
stability.
He
how
he
learned,
slowly
and
painful-
therefore
sees
order
as
the
first
ly,
that
the
American 'national requirement;
humanitarian
or
trade
interest'
was
not
the grand
unified
concerns
come second.
thing
it
was
cracked
up
to be.
Peter
The
United
States
should try
to
Trubowitz
lends
further
support
to
do
what
any
good
government
does
the
cause,
and,
mirabile
dictu,
he
and
create
the
framework
within
does
it
in
a
plain,
literate,
style.
which
peace
and prosperity
can
Canadians
puzzled
by
the
ways
of
flourish.
His
analogy
is
the
sheriff
their
southern
neighbour
could
do
who
usually
calls
on
a
posse
to
help.
worse
than
to
pick
up
Trubowitz
That
means
more
multilateral
orga-
for an
evening's
read.
nizations
and
more
multi-nation
undertakings
like
Desert
Storm. It
THE
RELUCTANT
SHERIFF
all
sounds rather
sensible
but
who
is
the
United
States after
the
cold
war going
to
persuade
the
American
tax-
Richard
N.
Haass
payers
to
go
for
it?
New
York:
Council
on
Foreign
Rela-
tions,
1997,
150pp,
US$24.95
Margaret
MacMillan/Ryerson
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Spring 1998
365
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