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A 3 page book review of Christopher Layne’s The Peace of Illusions. Layne’s text presents current U.S. policies as having created a peace that is based on illusions, which could easily shatter from the effect of an unforeseen crisis. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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since 1940."i The rationale behind this superlative evaluation lies not so much in Laynes writing, which is at times quite convoluted, but rather in the position he takes relative to
American foreign policy and where it might lead. Laynes text presents current U.S. policies as having created a peace that is based on illusions, which could easily shatter from the
effect of an unforeseen crisis.ii The thrust of Laynes argument is the theme that U.S. foreign policy, since World War II, has been formulated in order to achieve the goal
of global hegemony. Layne maintains that the Cold War was more about American foreign ambitions than containing Communism and that this position is proven by the fact that since the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has continued this quest.iii The pursuit of hegemony entails that that "countries open their economies, conform to U.S. ideas and institutions, and unquestioningly
accept U.S. leadership."iv This argument is presented against the backdrop of history as Layne asserts that the goal of "expansionist U.S. policy" has long been geared towards making America
the "most powerful international actor since imperial Rome."v Starting with the Open Door policy that the U.S. took towards China at the dawn of the twentieth century, Layne discusses how
the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication of British dominance in world trade the dominant goal of the "open
markets" strategy.vi In regards to the isolationism of the 1930s and the idea that the U.S. reluctantly emerged to fight totalitarianism, Layne argues that "American policy deliberately sought to undermine
rivals and establish a new order based on the open door."vii Layne perceives the current Bush administrations foreign policy, particularly the war in Iraq, as in keeping with
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