American Foreign Policy

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

In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history....

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....

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

Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security....

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide strategy....

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....

In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end....

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....

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

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs - that between the United States and China....

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....

Not since Richard Nixon's heyday has there been a more controversial president capable of polarizing public opinion than George W. Bush....

The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States: the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq....

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

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....

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....

In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic?, David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century....

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions....