American Foreign Policy

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

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

Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted

Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations. In The Gulf, Michael F. Cairo reveals how, despite many similarities, father and son pursued very different international strategies....

President Eisenhower led us to victory in World War II. He then led our country as President for 8 years. He understood war and he understood how Washington worked....

When Gore Vidal’s New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense....

Strategic planning needs to be a more integral part of America's foreign policymaking.....

Years before September 11, our enemy warned us - and we weren't listening....

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

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....

Working behind the scenes for 18 months, Woodward has written the most intimate and sweeping portrait of Obama making globally critical decisions....

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy....

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

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....

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....

Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super" or hydrogen, bomb....

What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Daydream Believers explains how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track....

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 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....