In this book, Clarke and Clad challenge the established foreign policy elite to rethink old ways of approaching policy making. Believing that America should remain a strong world leader, Clarke and Clad convincingly argue for restraint in foreign policy decisions. Ever since George Bush proclaimed his vision of a "new world order," most foreign policy thinking has worked on the premise that we …
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 …
"In the 1990s Americans have been thinking incessantly about the leveling winds of cultural forces. They Have been worrying about the power of those winds swiftly to level the works of government, such as laws and schools, and of centuries, such as families and standards of taste and traditions of civility.
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.
Barbara Bush is certainly among the most pop- ular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compas- sion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children.
Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collaborators ask in Argument Without End, a book that will stand as a major contribution to what we know about the Vietnam War. Drawing on a series of meetings that brought together, for the first time ever, senior American and Vietnamese officials who had serv…
Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents…
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…
This book describes the links between business and politics in Southeast Asia, an unseen system of business favouritism that lies behind the myth of free market enterprise. At a broader level, my central point is this: despite the glitter, Southeast Asia's prosperity rests on shaky foundations and depends on external forces well beyond its control. The region's growth, in its essence, results 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…