Dale Copeland

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Dale Copeland |Jessica T. Mathews |Richard Hasen |Lawrence Lessig

In This Review In This Review A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China Copeland’s valuable book is both a history of the key moments in American foreign trade policy and a theoretical study of what he terms “dynamic realism,” the middle ground between so-called offensive realism (aggressive policies in the interest of protecting the security of the United States) and defensive realism (the recognition that overly aggressive policies can be...