Política exterior americana

The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe....

Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

"Grand strategy" is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring....

In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict....

In this stunningly detailed account of US military power in the Obama era, Mark Moyar reveals how Obama's military decisions have led to the international catastrophes of his second term....

A new book by former vice president and number-one New York Times best-selling author Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney....

In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

Calder Walton presents the “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.

Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005....

In this long-awaited successor to his #1 best seller The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam describes in fascinating human detail how the shadow of Cold War ...

Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

The term "blowback", invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad....

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....

This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts....

Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis....

A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history."....

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more....

The inspiring autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career....

A bracing assessment of US foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy....