Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
The Continuing Crisis is a successor to the widely-used 1984 anthology Crisis and Opportunity. Nearly three-fourths of the essays are new. In addition to analyses from Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other prestigious journals, this volume contains the most significant original documents and official statements on the Central American crisis. Each essay is p…
The dispute between the United States and New Zealand over alliance obligations, which came to a head in early 1985, has not been settled by the US Secretary of State decision to reopen limited contact with his New Zealand ministerial counterpart. The unprofitable stand-off continues. Unless their political leaders are prepared to show greater regard for national interests-and less for their ow…
The first comprehensive and systematic analysis of American and Soviet security cooperation since World War II, this volume expertly examines the pursuit of arms control, the search for stability, and the balance of power between the two countries. The twenty-one case studies, each commissioned from a highly qualified specialist on the subject in question, probe a wide range of global, regional…
This book discusses the pattern of change and conditions in Russia after Stalin. Then it also explains Russia during the Gorbachev era. The evolution of US policy goals and western influence on the Soviet Union.
This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.
President Kennedy's former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and co-author Blight offer suggestions as to how the United States could and should change its foreign policy and defense policy to incorporate the core objectives of post-WWI Wilsonian ideals. They suggest that the United States make the end of war a major goal of foreign policy and argue that while the U.S. will have to provide l…
Indonesia and the United States, Shared Interests in Maritime Security by Bronson Percival analyzes the threats posed by terrorists to the strategic waterways that pass near and through the Indonesian archipelago. This trenchant review focuses on Indonesian organization and capabilities in the maritime sector.
This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last 15 years of foreign policy, since the end of the Cold War, in relation to the last 40 years. In 1989, the US emerged as victor from the Cold War struggle. But what did victory mean? In the US, commentators were divided in their views: some feared their nation's eclipse by more successful trading powers or blo…