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Good Intentions Make Bad Foreign Policy
Michael Mandelbaum, director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, 2016), argued that the end of the Cold War led to American intervention in conflicts non-essential to its interest, like Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, that only weakened the U.S. standing in the world.
Now: @SAISHopkins's Michael Mandelbaum says U.S. never found its footing after the Cold War; hence rise of ISIS. pic.twitter.com/NPQhVmIT7e
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 31, 2016Mandelbaum stated one of his main takeaways from failed American interventions: "The United States...does not have the power to rearrange the domestic powers and economics of other countries."