Freedom Isn’t Free

Freedom Isn’t Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable, the volume’s collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engaging—from manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensions—presented not as distant complexities, but as relatable events.

Freedom Isn’t Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable and very accessible, the volume’s collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engaging—from manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensions—presented not as distant complexities, but as relatable events. Freedom Isn’t Free provides a strategic guide to some of the most important—sometimes intractable—issues 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 Isn’t 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.

Foreword by Nancy Ancrum; Introduction An Expensive Good; Chapter 1 Freedom of Speech; Chapter 2 Freedom of Thought; Chapter 3 Freedom to Worship; Chapter 4 Freedom to Learn; Chapter 5 Freedom of Movement; Chapter 6 Freedom from Corruption; Chapter 7 Freedom from Fear; Chapter 8 Freedom from Oppression; Chapter 9 Freedom through Security; Chapter 10 A Free World; Afterword The Challenge to Freedom; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.