American Foreign Policy

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 Your Government Failed You, Clarke looks at why national security failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed against the terrorists....

In The Emergency State, leading global affairs commentator David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America's obsessive pursuit of absolute national security.

Stewart and Knaus distill their firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of "nation building"....

Covering conflicts from the 18th century to today, Assessing War blends focused advice and a uniquely broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare....

As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions....

More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind....

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....

Best-selling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort to discredit and distort virtually everything he did.....

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 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran....

In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein....

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

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....

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

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

Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism....

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....

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....

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....