American Foreign Policy

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....

What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Daydream Believers explains how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track....

This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense....

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives....

In the late '80s and early '90s, United States policymakers made intelligence support to the military the Intelligence Community's top priority. In response to this demand, the CIA and DoD instituted policy and organizational changes that altered their relationship with one another....

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

Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted

The former editor-in-chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his best-selling The Sun Also Sets to lay out a fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan....

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

A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today....

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 ...

Trenchant and passionate, The Deaths of Others forces listeners to consider the tragic consequences of American military action not just for Americans, but especially for those we fight....

Strategic planning needs to be a more integral part of America's foreign policymaking.....

Covering wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, and a retreat from international engagement with the UN, WHO, Pembroke sketches the history of America's retreat from universal principles....

After nine months of examining and analyzing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group issued this report on Dec. 6, 2006....

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....

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.....

Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era, proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Walker analyzes the international crises and monetary troubles that further curtailed the reach of the American Century....

Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than 30 years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies....