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Book Launch - A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, by Jeffrey D. Sachs

October 3, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY 10027 2nd Floor
Please join us as Jeffrey Sachs discusses his newest book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism. Steve Sestanovich, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Diplomacy and George F. Kennan Senior Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will deliver an introduction prior to Professor Sachs' lecture. A Q&A will follow. From Columbia University Press: The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” isolationism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges. In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity—not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor at Columbia University and serves as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. He is a New York Times best-selling author, and his Columbia University Press books include The Age of Sustainable Development (2015) and Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017).

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