American Foreign Policy

General Richard B. Myers has unique insight into how the American national-security system works....

Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations. In The Gulf, Michael F. Cairo reveals how, despite many similarities, father and son pursued very different international strategies....

Best-selling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort to discredit and distort virtually everything he did.....

Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages....

This audiobook presents arguments for the abolition of war, demonstating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war.

Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of US dependence on a permanent war economy....

Even though the collapse of the Soviet Union left America as the sole world superpower, the United States sought to promote a world order based on ...

How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations....

Working behind the scenes for 18 months, Woodward has written the most intimate and sweeping portrait of Obama making globally critical decisions....

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership....

President Eisenhower led us to victory in World War II. He then led our country as President for 8 years. He understood war and he understood how Washington worked....

The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East....

When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions....

Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, George H. W. Bush, and a host of other actors engaged with adversaries....

In North Korea and the World, Clemens poses the question, "Can, should, and must we negotiate with a regime we regard as evil?" He concludes that the answer is yes....

Covering conflicts from the 18th century to today, Assessing War blends focused advice and a uniquely broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare....

Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year's presidential election....

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for 40 years it eschewed an aggressive grand strategy. Why....

This narrative looks closely at the need of American citizens themselves to retake the initiative and duty of maintaining their own political sovereignty, to take action to preserve America's Christian tradition of "democracy from below", and get America back into a covenant with God....

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy....