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....

In the 25 years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart....

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....

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for 40 years it eschewed an aggressive grand strategy. Why....

Prizewinning historian Nick Bunker shows us a polarized nation facing crises at home and abroad in this evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War....

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....

A powerful memoir from the late former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights....

In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe argues that having greater capacity to build weaponry doesn't translate to greater coercive advantage. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint....

A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence?...

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

Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, "the most trusted man in America....

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 ...

Biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times....

Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order....

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....

This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program....

Former secretary of state and best-selling author Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face....

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....

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.

Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965 - the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly with combat units....