American Foreign Policy

Coming of age in America in the 1970s and 80s, Joe Weisberg was a Cold Warrior. After briefly studying Russian in Leningrad, he joined the CIA in 1990 - just in time to watch the Soviet Union collapse....

Decision Making in a Nuclear Middle East analyzes the implications of a nuclear Iran by applying lessons from the Cold War....

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

In The Emergency State, leading global affairs commentator David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America's obsessive pursuit of absolute national security.

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

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....

Ian Bremmer argues that Washington's directionless foreign policy has become prohibitively expensive and increasingly dangerous....

Economic interdependence makes today's world a much more complex place than when balance of power theory was initially developed. Restraining Great Powers places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective....

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....

A provocative blueprint for how the United States can successfully disengage from failing wars without compromising its core values or interests....

This original analysis challenges some widely held beliefs about the determinants of United States foreign policy and will bring new insight to contemporary debates about whether the nation should-or must-play so active a part in world politics....

In this updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement....

The U.S. agents must outwit not only enemy brokers but also American manufacturers and global bankers who are too willing to put profit over national security....

In Elusive Victories, Polsky provides a fascinating study of six wartime presidents, drawing larger lessons about the limits of the power of the White House during armed conflict....

Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years....

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

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong....

In Monsters to Destroy, Navin A. Bapat argues that the war on terror provides the US a cover for its efforts to expand and preserve American control over global energy markets....