Ännu en av president Barack Obamas rådgivare har skrivit en bok, nämligen professor Charles A. Kupchan, Isolationism. A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World (Oxford University Press 2020). Då Henry Kissinger rekommenderat boken bör den skärskådas.
Kupchans ståndpunkt klargörs inledningsvis:
“I put myself in the ‘selective engagement’ school. I believe that the United States has dramatically overreached since the end of the Cold War—especially in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11. Accordingly, a major strategic retrenchment is in order; the United States needs to off-load at least some of its surfeit of foreign entanglements.