In short, the book is a series of case studies of U.S.-China negotiations, examining the impact, at various points in time, of distinct combinations of internal and external factors on the behavior of the negotiators and the outcome of the negotiations.
The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other.
Discusses China's growing military and economic power, and warns of the potential threat to American hegemony throughout the world.
This volume examines the shifting relationship between the peoples and governments of the United States and China during the last century. By focusing on personalities and cultures as well as politics, the author explains the misperceptions that have driven the two countries together and apart.
Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relations--including the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan a…
A provocative account of the state of Asian geopolitics and US foreign policy in Asia. Drawing on decades of business and political experience, William H. Overholt argues that there is a tension between America's continuing Cold War attitudes and its national interests that poses severe problems for US policy.
A collection of essays, reviews, and speeches examining the changes in the world and in the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and Russia during the twentieth century.
The author provided a workable, and severely critical, analysis of the Bush administration's overreaching, militaristic foreign policy. Soros believes that this administration's plans abroad come from the same sort of "bubble" psychology that afflicted our markets in the late 1990s. They have used military supremacy to create a deluded worldview, that might makes right and that "you're either w…
From one of our country's most distinguished statesmen, The Politics of Diplomacy is an outstanding inside account of an extraordinary time in world history. By any reckoning, James Baker's years as Secretary of State contained some of the most pivotal events of the second half of the twentieth century, and few men played as critical a role in so many of them as Baker himself. In this candid, r…
Toward a New Public Diplomacy explains public diplomacy and makes the case for why it will be the crucial element in the much-needed reinvention of American foreign policy.