TRADE for PEACE
How the DNA of America, Freemasonry, and Providence Created a New World Order with Nobody in Charge
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“Quite remarkable…a special quality. I thoroughly enjoyed as I learned from it. I recommend it heartily.” ~ Professor STEPHEN JOE TRACHTENBERG, 33° Freemason, President Emeritus and University Professor, The George Washington University
“An interesting approach for analyzing the nation's commercial roots.” ~ WALTER ISAACSON, President of the Aspen Institute and former CEO of CNN and Managing Editor of TIME Magazine
“Like de Tocqueville, Mendis sees cultural connections. Economic nationalists…will be forced to think again." – Professor ROBERT KUDRLE, Orville Freeman Professor of International Trade, University of Minnesota
“American narrative with a sharp scholarly edge, drawing richly on America’s classical roots, including a near-mystical appreciation of Freemasonry." – Professor LINCOLN BLOOMFIELD, MIT Professor of Political Science Emeritus and former Director of the National Security Council, White House
"[A] grand idea of the Founding Fathers…enshrines the power of the commerce clause in our Constitution. … [that is] revealed in the architecture of our nation’s capital.” – Ambassador MAX KAMPELMAN, former Counselor to the U.S. State Department and U.S. Ambassador for Presidents Carter and Reagan
“I found his insights into contemporary foreign policy and international affairs are immensely valuable… [a] richer synthesis of diverse fields than those usually encountered.” – Ambassador RONALD LEHMAN, Director of the Center for Global Security Research, U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“This is a timely antidote to ahistorical pessimism.” – Professor DAVID LAMPTON, Dean of Faculty and Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
“As America prepares to reinvent itself yet again, it is important to reexamine the links between the future and the past. Patrick Mendis – master teacher, world citizen, and great American – provides a vehicle for that examination.” – Professor SHELTON WILLIAMS, President of the Osgood Center for International Studies and Professor Emeritus at Austin College, Texas
“Sweeping and provocative discussion (on) the economic policy dilemmas of a post-9/11 world.” – Professor TIMOTHY TAYLOR, Managing editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association
“In a time of economic crisis, ... Patrick Mendis offers us the ‘back to basics’ historical context that we need.” – Professor KENNETH GOODPASTER, David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics, The University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis
"Replete with information, ... a unique and thought-provoking portrait ... offers an intriguing lens ... to examine ... democracy, trade, and the American spirit.” – Ambassador JOHN MCDONALD, Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy and former Deputy Director General of ILO
"Patrick Mendis humanizes our nation’s Founding Fathers through his interesting analysis of their foundation and construction of our nation’s capital city, the Constitution, and commercial principles.” – STEPHEN JORDAN, Executive Director of the Business Civic Leadership Center and Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"At a time when the United States and other democracies are revisiting their founding principles to respond to major global challenges, along comes Patrick Mendis with his unique perspective on how to achieve balance among seemingly conflicting ideals." – WARREN MASTER, Editor-in-Chief of The Public Manager
“One of our most original thinkers on global economic issues.” – Ambassador SHAUN DONNELLY, Senior Director of the National Association of Manufacturers and former U.S. Trade Negotiator to WTO and U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka
“When Patrick Mendis grew up in Sri Lanka, he dreamt about America and was inspired by great Virginians: Madison, Jefferson, Washington, and Patrick Henry. Patrick Mendis -- now himself a proud Virginian -- and former American diplomat and military professor, writes about the American destiny.” – Governor GEORGE ALLEN, Ronald Reagan Ranch Presidential Scholar and former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator
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AMERICA HAS BEEN A NATION OF GREAT RIVALRY ever since the arrival of the European settlers. This book traces the history of the two foreign policy traditions from their incarnation in the colonial settlements to their evolution into a lasting rivalry between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian ideals. Dr. Patrick Mendis deciphers the cause that unified these men and uncovers the perennial influence of Freemasonry as well as the founding vision of America embedded as "public secrets" in the nation's capital.
“A TOUR DE FORCE” ~ MIT Professor Emeritus LINCOLN BLOOMFIELD
“CAREFULLY RESEARCHED” ~ Aspen Institute President WALTER ISAACSON
“LIKE DE TOCQUEVILLE” ~ Orville Freeman Professor ROBERT KUDRLE
“IMPRESSIVE” ~ Ambassador MAX KAMPELMAN
"GET TO KNOW THIS PATRIOTIC CITIZEN” ~ Senator GEORGE ALLEN
FOREWORD by Professor J. BRIAN ATWOOD, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Undersecretary of Management at the U.S. State Department.
DEDICATED to the late NATO Ambassador HARLAN CLEVELAND, the Founding Dean of the Humphrey Institute and former President of the University of Hawaii and President of the World Academy of Art and Science.
To read the Foreword and Dedication, please see: http://patrickmendis.blogspot.com
About the Author
Dr. PATRICK MENDIS serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Osgood Center for International Studies and is a Visiting Scholar in Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. An adjunct professor of diplomacy at Norwich University and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Professor Mendis is an alumnus of the Harvard executive leadership program at the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. A military professor in the NATO and Pacific Commands through the University of Maryland, Dr. Mendis has also worked in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy, and State as well as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Commitee and the Minnesota House of Representatives. He and his family consider Minnesota home but they live in northern Virginia.
See the homepage: http://patrickmendis.com