(CNN)Many historians have pointed out that we live in unprecedented times. The lack of war involving the planet ‘s major powers has marked the time since 1945. Most of previous human history is a story of financial mercantilism, continued war and political struggle. Since 1945, we’ve lived in what John Lewis Gaddis dubbed the “Long Peace.” Through the Long Peace we’ve also had decades of increasing incomes, well-being and living standards through the planet, particularly in the United States.
He was the dissenter when Roosevelt was starting to design his system. The dominant foreign policy notions in America in the time were signified with a movement called “America First.” Nativist, isolationist and anti Semitic, the movement maintained that an external-oriented America was a policy for suckers. It required Hitler and World War II to get Americans understand that, to get a state of the size as well as scale in America, isolation and narrow self interest would result in catastrophe and international insecurity. One wonders what it’s going to require to make the America Firsters relearn the exact same lesson of today.
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