Freedom Isn't Free: The Conflicts and Costs for World Order and National Interests

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Freedom Isnt Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable and very accessible, the volumes collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engagingfrom manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensionspresented not as distant complexities, but as relatable events. Freedom Isnt Free provides a strategic guide to some of the most importantsometimes intractableissues of the day. It pays special attention to superpower America's role in contemporary geopolitics and her shifting policy options given leadership, competition, domestic governing challenges and self-inflicted nativism. Unlike most International Relations texts, Freedom Isnt Free investigates actual, contemporary themes that nest political theory within the arguments and analyses of the collected essays, privileging liberal state systems and citizens individual liberties.

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Markos Kounalakis is an award-winning author, scholar and journalist. He is a visiting fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution.