American Foreign Policy

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....

Discover a new conservative foreign policy plan that will empower America to overcome the most difficult global challenges. With chaos abroad and ...

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 United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good....

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe during the past two decades, Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty....

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 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....

In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B. Reiss has been at the center of some of America's most sensitive diplomatic negotiations....

The Obamians is the definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policy....

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....

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

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

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with US and Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here....

In Don't Wait for the Next War, Wesley K. Clark, presents a compelling argument for continued American global leadership....

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

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....

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....

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

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

The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy. But it was not always so, as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of misadventures in the region....