The Godfather Doctrine

Descrição: The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable (English Edition) The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate Americas changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces. In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone, head of New Yorks most powerful organized-crime family, is shockingly gunned down in broad daylight, leaving his sons Sonny and Michael, along with his adopted son, consigliere Tom Hagen, to chart a new course for the family. In The Godfather Doctrine, John Hulsman and Wess Mitchell show how the aging and wounded don is emblematic of cold-war American power on the decline in a new world where our enemies play by unfamiliar rules,