It’s time for America to get back in the international leadership game.
What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we’re no longer the only major player?
In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power. Runde maps out many of the steps that we need to take––primarily in the non-military sphere––to ensure an alliance of stable and secure, like-minded, self-reliant partner nations in order to prevent rising authoritarian powers such as China from running the world.
“We cannot afford for Runde’s recommendations to lie inert in this excellent book. This is a book that must be read, debated, and applied to improve policy development and implementation.”
— H.R. McMaster, former United States National Security Advisor
“Dan Runde has a mission: to integrate development assistance within a comprehensive U.S. foreign policy. His book efficiently explains the purposes, history, changing themes, tools, traps, reforms, and institutions of aid—with an eye on the practice and practicalities of experience. The American Imperative advocates a valuable conservative internationalism amidst the transformations and competition of the early 21st Century”
— Robert B. Zoellick former President, World Bank, U.S. Trade Representatives, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, author of America in the World
Daniel F. Runde 