American Foreign Policy

Interventions, by Noam Chomsky, is getting new press after the Pentagon banned the book from Guantanamo Bay's prison library....

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

An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold....

A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983 - the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon. The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one - more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis....

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....

Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions....

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."....

Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to themselves....

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

The Bushes, America's most powerful political family, became gradually seduced by and entangled with their Saudi counterparts....

Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

Written in an accessible and authoritative voice, The Button reveals the shocking tales and sobering facts of nuclear executive authority throughout the atomic age, delivering a powerful condemnation against ever leaving explosive power this devastating under one person's thumb....

The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China....

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....

Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history....

A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance....

Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people....

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....

Rich in history and political insight, this is an important contribution to the ongoing dialogue over the Iraq War....

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots....