Download or read book Making American Foreign Policy written by Ole Holsti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ole Holsti, one of the deans of US foreign policy analysis, examines the complex factors involved in the policy decision-making process including the beliefs and cognitive processes of foreign policy leaders and the influence public opinion has on foreign policy. The essays, in addition to being both theoretically and empirically rich, are historical in breadth--with essays on Vietnam--as well as contemporary in relevance--with essays on public opinion and foreign policy after 9/11.
Download or read book Retreat and its Consequences written by Robert J. Lieber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the consequences of retreat and retrenchment in foreign policy? In recent years, America has pulled back from its long-time role of international leadership. In doing so the Obama administration has sought to conciliate adversaries, shown indifference to allies; called upon the international community to step in; proclaimed and then disavowed 'red lines'; and preferred to lead from behind in the face of catastrophic civil war in Syria, ISIS barbarism in the Middle East and North Africa, Russia's predatory behavior in Eastern Europe, and China's muscle-flexing in East Asia. The consequences of this 'realist' experiment have been costly and painful, and it has caused the US to lose credibility with friends and foes. America retains the capacity to lead, but unless it resumes a more robust role, the world is likely to become a more dangerous place, with mounting threats not only to regional stability and international order, but to the national interests of America itself.
Download or read book Indispensable Nation written by Robert J. Lieber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today The United States remains “the indispensable nation.” In this book, the distinguished international relations theorist and foreign policy specialist Robert Lieber argues that in a world full of revisionist powers, America’s role is more important than ever. No other country is capable of playing that role. America remains the essential pillar of the postwar liberal order. It is a center of both political and financial stability, and it promotes important values that the revisionist powers do not. Not beholden to any particular theory, this is a clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today.
Download or read book Made by the USA written by A. Hybel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the two hundred year drive by the United States to first, become a global power and, second, create an international security and economic system capable of protecting and promoting its strategic and economic interests.
Download or read book Reversing Course written by David Skidmore and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism.
Download or read book Africa and the North written by Ulf Engel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining how the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international.
Download or read book America in the Modern World written by Stephen Burman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, are fundamental not only for those societies but also in their implications for the rest of the world. They signal the passing of the international order that has governed the post war era. Since the United States was the principal architect of that order, its passing will have fundamental implications for America's role in the modern world. It has been suggested that this transformation will reduce the US to the status of an ordinary country, indeed that the signs of decline are already everywhere apparent. In this book, the author argues to the contrary that the emerging new world order offers great opportunities to the US to maintain its status as the leading power in the world.
Download or read book North Atlantic Treaty Organization written by Phil Williams and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Experience written by Vincent Khapoya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United States and European countries.
Download or read book Eagle Entangled written by Kenneth A. Oye and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Shetland written by Henry Linckmyer Saxby and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Europe Since 1945 written by Klaus Larres and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War. Includes 22 original essays by an international team of expert scholars Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout Europe in the Cold War and Post Cold War periods Discusses a wide range of topics including the Single Market, European-American relations, family life and employment, globalization, consumption, political parties, European decolonization, European identity, security and defence policies, and Europe's fight against international terrorism Presents Europe in a broad geographical conception, to give equal weighting to developments in the Eastern and Western European states
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Download or read book The American Impasse written by Michael Minkenberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the USSR produced strikingly little enthusiasm in the United States. The political energy absorbed for forty years by American-Soviet relations left America no triumphant, but reflective, turning inward with a general sense of national decline. American politics and policy have met the rapid changes in the new global order with alarming slowness and inflexibility. In this book, fourteen leading political scientists ask two basic questions. What effect did the cold war have on American institutions and politics? And how will American politics evolve now? The first section of the volume focuses on institutions-the presidency, Congress, federalism. The second explores politics-ideologies, public opinion, and the American party system. The third section tackles important policy areas: the budget, social issues, education, foreign policy, trade, and immigration. Contributors: Joel D. Aberbach; Tobias Dürr; Andreas Falke; Adrienne Héritier; Peter Lösche; Theodore J. Lowi; Heinz-Dieter Meyer; Demetrios G. Papademetriou; Paul E. Peterson; Bert A. Rockman; James Thurber; David B. Walker; and the editors.
Download or read book Beyond Nuclear Thinking written by Robert W. Malcolmson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolmson (history, Queen's U.) analyzes the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy since 1945, connecting the legacies of the past with the politics of the 1990s, presenting a non-technical and broadly based interpretation of important aspects of life and thought in the nuclear age. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Reagan on War written by Gail E. S. Yoshitani and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even at the time it was announced near the end of the first term of the Reagan administration, such luminaries as William Safire mischaracterized the Weinberger Doctrine as a conservative retreat from the use of force in U.S. international relations. Since that time, scholars have largely agreed with Safire that the six points spelled out in the statement represented a reaction to the Vietnam War and were intended to limit U.S. military action to “only the fun wars” that could be relatively easily won or those in response to direct attack. In this work of extensive original scholarship, military historian Gail Yoshitani argues that the Weinberger Doctrine was intended to legitimize the use of military force as a tool of statecraft, rather than to reserve force for a last resort after other instruments of power have failed. This understanding sheds much clearer light on recent foreign policy decisions, as well as on the formulation and adoption of the original doctrine. With the permission of the family of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Yoshitani gained access to Weinberger’s papers at the Library of Congress. She is the first scholar granted access to General (ret.) John Vessey’s archive at the Library, and her security clearance has made it possible for her to read and use a large number of materials still classified as secret or top secret. Yoshitani uses three case studies from the Reagan administration’s first term in office—Central America and two deployments in Lebanon—to analyze how the administration grappled with using military force in pursuit of national interests. Ultimately, the administration codified the lessons it learned during its first term in the Weinberger Doctrine promulgated by Secretary of Defense Weinberger in a speech on November 28, 1984, two weeks after Reagan won reelection in a landslide. Yoshitani carefully considers the Weinberger Doctrine’s six tests to be applied when considering the use of military force as a tool of statecraft. Just as the Reagan administration was forced to dance an intricate step in the early 1980s as it sought to use force as a routine part of statecraft, current and future administrations face similar challenges. Yoshitani’s analysis facilitates a better understanding of the Doctrine and how it might be applied by American national security managers today. This corrective to the common wisdom about the Weinberger Doctrine’s goals and applicability to contemporary issues will appeal not only to diplomatic and military historians, but also to military leaders and general readers concerned about America’s decision making concerning the use of force.
