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.
Waltzing with a Dictator is the startling story of America's twenty-year partnership with the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda. Based on 12,000 pages of previously classified U.S. documents, Raymond Bonner's account contains never-before-told details of the incredible lifestyle of Imelda Marcos; of the imprisonment and assassination of Genigno S. Aquino; of the Mar…
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.
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush adminis…
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…
This book containing history of the forces driving the American economy to boom in the 1990s and collapse in 2000.
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.