American Foreign Policy

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion....

These are actual historic recordings. The sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording....

Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics.

If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, the author suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained....

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

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power.

Colin Powell has been among America's most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell's decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise to the highest echelons of military and political power....

Communist China is lying, cheating, and stealing its way into becoming a global superpower....

As we stand now, there is one rule for the US / NATO and another for Russia / China and the rest of the world. Undeniably, US / NATO forces and ...

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....

Globalists and socialists at the United Nations, and in the United States itself, are trying to dilute our national sovereignty and undermine our democratic values....

During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States....

The US, Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Its grand strategy of "liberal hegemony" is counterproductive, costly, and wasteful....

In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace....

From its earliest beginnings, America has been seen as an icon of liberty with a mission to redeem the world. Often, the ideal fits. But sometimes even our most noble aspirations can be as damaging as they are uplifting....

Kennedy had to walk a very fine line - push hard enough to get as much nuclear weaponry out of Cuba as possible, yet avoid forcing the volatile Khrushchev into a combative stance....

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.

In The Obama Doctrine, Colin Dueck analyzes and explains what the Obama Doctrine in foreign policy actually is and maps out the competing visions on offer from the Republican Party....

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