If We Want It: A Foreign Policy of Peace and Prosperity

Leading progressive thinkers offer a bold, practical vision for US foreign policy in 2028 and beyond.

What is foreign policy for? It should secure people's well-being, but in an interconnected world shaped by climate change, pandemics, and economic instability, that cannot be done in isolation. A durable approach must account for the common good and the human consequences of American power.

Yet much of the establishment remains committed to global military primacy at almost any cost-fueling endless dominance abroad while draining resources, neglecting domestic needs, and eroding democratic liberties at home. A healthy democracy is incompatible with an endless quest for global dominance.

This book advances a new vision: one grounded in peacemaking, skeptical of runaway defense spending, resistant to performative "toughness," and committed to tackling inequality through a pro-worker international agenda.

Bringing together leading voices, it offers a clear framework for rethinking US engagement with the world.