Política exterior americana

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....

Vital listening at this crucial juncture as the nation grapples with the profound challenge of Iraq, Jarecki's penetrating examination is sure to generate wide acclaim and lively debate....

Resolved is Ban Ki-moon's personal account of his decade at the helm of the organization during a period of historic turmoil and promise....

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....

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....

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that has attended the post 9/11 world, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent....

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....

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....

Intended for policymakers, defense and military professionals, military historians, and academics, this book offers a solid critique of the Army's current capacity to adapt to likely future adversary strategies....

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

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....

A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence....

For the better part of the last half century, the United States has been the world's police, claiming to defend ideologies, allies, and our national security through brute force....

This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal....

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....

In A Superpower Transformed, historian Daniel J. Sargent chronicles how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes....

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....

Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views itself....

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 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....