It more than rhymes! Has the US really been making the. same. exact. mistake. for two centuries of foreign policy? Yes, absolutely yes.

Like The Dictator’s Handbook, We May Dominate the World stands out for me because it offers a couple of new frameworks for understanding state action and reasoning about its consequences. However, those new frameworks are not trumpeted as the core insight of the work. They have to be teased out of commentary here and there, buried in a sea of names and dates for US interventions across the Americas.