EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL
Written in clear and persuasive prose spiked with interesting anecdotes and whimsical detail, Robert Betancourt explains why the answer is NO! The diminishing power and authority of the United States in the international arena is inevitable, and we are likely to feel less secure. The rising and increasing legitimate powers and authorities worldwide will continue to dominate and influence the public policies of the United States. However, determined to remain a world power, the United States will go to great lengths to prevent its diminishing legitimate power and authority from continuing to happen. The calamity of the United States' legitimate power and authority seems unavoidable.
Betancourt is an excellent political outspoken critic of rival views. He contends that powerful forces skew U.S. foreign policy against the "country's" national interests by often securing unconditional support from those American limousine liberals, globalists, cosmopolitans, and corporate bureaucrats with extreme views of geopolitics that have grown up after the end of the cold war in 1989. He demolishes all primary components of such liberal political narratives that have permeated and fractured American society. Admirably, he seems to be happiest when walking the prevailing surfaces across the vast stretches of tundra low-lying, coldest of the intolerant and dark liberal academic orthodoxy where most academic experts reside. And Betancourt draws inspiration and critical thinking from this American political environment.
Backed by impressive theoretical, historical, and philosophical research and a refreshing systematic analysis of the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States is sure to provoke debate among mainstream scholars and the general American public at large about how precisely these issues would soon be resolved.
It is an ambitious undertaking and an impressive level of writing skills. Robert Betancourt is a fellow American citizen and a self-guided, self-disciplined critical thinker who attempts to observe, reason, reflect and communicate to guide belief and action. Above all else, he is a political scientist and an international relations theorist. More explicitly, he is a realist, which implies that he believes that the different actors in the international scene dominate the anarchical international system. Betancourt maintains that many (if not all) human actions are prompted by self-interest. They are continuously engaged in seeking and preserving their interests, which is currently causing the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States.
He adamantly believes that social science theories are indispensable for making and analyzing foreign policy. They offer valuable tools for predicting what lies ahead. For instance, he is a withering critic of U.S. foreign policy. Betancourt makes a profound distinction from the U.S. leadership in areas such as trade and diplomacy and an across-the-board toughening on immigration policies. He opposed the 2003 Iraq War even before it happened and the protracted Afghanistan War and Russia-Ukraine war.
"EMBATTLED Or the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL" will change how you look at – and understand the United States' legitimate power and authority in today's world.
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EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL
Written in clear and persuasive prose spiked with interesting anecdotes and whimsical detail, Robert Betancourt explains why the answer is NO! The diminishing power and authority of the United States in the international arena is inevitable, and we are likely to feel less secure. The rising and increasing legitimate powers and authorities worldwide will continue to dominate and influence the public policies of the United States. However, determined to remain a world power, the United States will go to great lengths to prevent its diminishing legitimate power and authority from continuing to happen. The calamity of the United States' legitimate power and authority seems unavoidable.
Betancourt is an excellent political outspoken critic of rival views. He contends that powerful forces skew U.S. foreign policy against the "country's" national interests by often securing unconditional support from those American limousine liberals, globalists, cosmopolitans, and corporate bureaucrats with extreme views of geopolitics that have grown up after the end of the cold war in 1989. He demolishes all primary components of such liberal political narratives that have permeated and fractured American society. Admirably, he seems to be happiest when walking the prevailing surfaces across the vast stretches of tundra low-lying, coldest of the intolerant and dark liberal academic orthodoxy where most academic experts reside. And Betancourt draws inspiration and critical thinking from this American political environment.
Backed by impressive theoretical, historical, and philosophical research and a refreshing systematic analysis of the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States is sure to provoke debate among mainstream scholars and the general American public at large about how precisely these issues would soon be resolved.
It is an ambitious undertaking and an impressive level of writing skills. Robert Betancourt is a fellow American citizen and a self-guided, self-disciplined critical thinker who attempts to observe, reason, reflect and communicate to guide belief and action. Above all else, he is a political scientist and an international relations theorist. More explicitly, he is a realist, which implies that he believes that the different actors in the international scene dominate the anarchical international system. Betancourt maintains that many (if not all) human actions are prompted by self-interest. They are continuously engaged in seeking and preserving their interests, which is currently causing the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States.
He adamantly believes that social science theories are indispensable for making and analyzing foreign policy. They offer valuable tools for predicting what lies ahead. For instance, he is a withering critic of U.S. foreign policy. Betancourt makes a profound distinction from the U.S. leadership in areas such as trade and diplomacy and an across-the-board toughening on immigration policies. He opposed the 2003 Iraq War even before it happened and the protracted Afghanistan War and Russia-Ukraine war.
"EMBATTLED Or the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL" will change how you look at – and understand the United States' legitimate power and authority in today's world.
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EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL

EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL

by Robert Betancourt
EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL

EMBATTLED: Or the MATTER and FORM of the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL

by Robert Betancourt

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Written in clear and persuasive prose spiked with interesting anecdotes and whimsical detail, Robert Betancourt explains why the answer is NO! The diminishing power and authority of the United States in the international arena is inevitable, and we are likely to feel less secure. The rising and increasing legitimate powers and authorities worldwide will continue to dominate and influence the public policies of the United States. However, determined to remain a world power, the United States will go to great lengths to prevent its diminishing legitimate power and authority from continuing to happen. The calamity of the United States' legitimate power and authority seems unavoidable.
Betancourt is an excellent political outspoken critic of rival views. He contends that powerful forces skew U.S. foreign policy against the "country's" national interests by often securing unconditional support from those American limousine liberals, globalists, cosmopolitans, and corporate bureaucrats with extreme views of geopolitics that have grown up after the end of the cold war in 1989. He demolishes all primary components of such liberal political narratives that have permeated and fractured American society. Admirably, he seems to be happiest when walking the prevailing surfaces across the vast stretches of tundra low-lying, coldest of the intolerant and dark liberal academic orthodoxy where most academic experts reside. And Betancourt draws inspiration and critical thinking from this American political environment.
Backed by impressive theoretical, historical, and philosophical research and a refreshing systematic analysis of the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States is sure to provoke debate among mainstream scholars and the general American public at large about how precisely these issues would soon be resolved.
It is an ambitious undertaking and an impressive level of writing skills. Robert Betancourt is a fellow American citizen and a self-guided, self-disciplined critical thinker who attempts to observe, reason, reflect and communicate to guide belief and action. Above all else, he is a political scientist and an international relations theorist. More explicitly, he is a realist, which implies that he believes that the different actors in the international scene dominate the anarchical international system. Betancourt maintains that many (if not all) human actions are prompted by self-interest. They are continuously engaged in seeking and preserving their interests, which is currently causing the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States.
He adamantly believes that social science theories are indispensable for making and analyzing foreign policy. They offer valuable tools for predicting what lies ahead. For instance, he is a withering critic of U.S. foreign policy. Betancourt makes a profound distinction from the U.S. leadership in areas such as trade and diplomacy and an across-the-board toughening on immigration policies. He opposed the 2003 Iraq War even before it happened and the protracted Afghanistan War and Russia-Ukraine war.
"EMBATTLED Or the LEGITIMATE POWER and AUTHORITY of a NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY and CIVIL" will change how you look at – and understand the United States' legitimate power and authority in today's world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798218957063
Publisher: Betan Books Publishing
Publication date: 08/18/2023
Pages: 540
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

Robert Betancourt is a fellow American citizen and a self-guided, self-disciplined critical thinker who endeavors to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. After graduating from the University of Puerto Rico in 1978, Betancourt served eight years as an officer in the US Army (Reserve Component). He also was an Internal Revenue Agent with the US Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service. Unsatisfied with his educational background in Social Sciences and Military Sciences, he decided to pursue graduate studies rather than continuing a long-term commitment as a government official at the US Department of Treasury.

He graduated from Norwich University in 2020 with a master's degree in International Conflict Management from Norwich University in Northfield, VT. Like many critical political thinkers of his generation, Betancourt is deeply influenced by Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer, known as neorealists (or structural realists). Whereas classical realists such as Hans Morgenthau had traced international conflicts to the natural proclivity of political leaders to seek to increase their legitimate power and authority, Betancourt locates the cause of the diminishing legitimate power and authority of the United States to the latest developments of globalization, telecommunications, the integration of the global economy, transnational corporations and elite economic leaders in the political structure of international relations.

His ideas on the science of politics are striking similar to those of military generals, strategists, and philosophers such as Thucydides, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Von Clausewitz, and even Sun Tsu.

He contends that powerful forces skew U.S. foreign policy against the country's national interests by often securing unconditional support from those liberals, globalists, cosmopolitans, and corporate bureaucrats. Betancourt maintains that many (if not all) human actions are prompted by self-interest.

Finally, he believes that history, philosophy, and social sciences theories are indispensable for making and analyzing foreign policy. They provide valuable theoretical tools that enable a more 'realistic' analysis of the future world order, showing the deficiencies of the radical liberal, globalist, and cosmopolitan vision that undermines the United States' legitimate power and authority in the world arena.

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