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Isolationism Reconfigured (1995) by Eric A. Nordlinger
Professor Nordlinger passed away before Isolationism Reconfigured was published, so he couldn’t promote it on CSPAN and other places. The book is also written in a turgid academic style. Those facts hampered the spread of isolationist ideas in the mid-1990s, unfortunately. In Isolationism Reconfigured, every point made by past non-interventionist Americans is examined by Nordlinger and found worthy. Had Nordlinger’s ideas been more broadly read and adopted in the 1990s, America could have kept out of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and post-Cold War Korea and saved the Americans a great many headaches.
Professor Nordlinger applies America’s Isolationistschool of thought to the Cold War, which had only recently...
