Ambassador Jack Matlock
Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - And How to Return to Reality
Jack F. Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from March 1987 to August 1991, served thirty-five years in the U.S. Foreign Service. Before his appointment as ambassador to the USSR by President Reagan, Matlock served as special assistant to the president and senior director of European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council.
In Superpower Illusions, Matlock refutes the popular conception that the United States and the Reagan administration forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure. He maintains that the end of the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American power and that the belief that the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union has compromised its ability to lead. Matlock makes a passionate plea for the United States under Obama to re-envision its foreign policy and gives examples of how the administration can reorient the U.S. approach to critical issues, taking advantage of lessons we should have learned from our experience in the Cold War.
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