The Great Betrayal

“An outstanding study of US foreign policy, based on meticulous research. Its anti-interventionist argument will resonate with an American public.” —David N. Gibbs

“Brilliantly traces how the Democratic Party divested of the vision of international order that Roosevelt had once articulated, leaving the American people sick and tired of costly military interventions.” —David Hendrickson

“It’s the book we have been waiting for—explaining one of the great conundrums of contemporary international politics. A brilliant, timely, and important achievement.” —Richard Sakwa

“Carden’s clear, easy to read, and incisive analysis reveals how the imperial hubris of Achesonian Democrats betrayed Rooseveltian ideals of concerted global governance.” —Hal Gardner

James W. Carden is a writer based in Washington, DC. He served as an adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and as a policy adviser to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs at the State Department under President Obama. For a decade, Carden worked in the global currency markets in New York including stints at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. After the State Department, he covered the emerging war in Ukraine, and reported from both rebel- and Ukrainian-held Donbas in the early years of the Ukraine conflict. His work has appeared in The Nation, The American Conservative, The Washington Post, Responsible Statecraft, The Spectator among many other outlets in both Europe and the US. He lives with his wife and stepson in Washington, DC.

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