This book analyzes the evolving national interests of the United States within the context of a rapidly changing global environment. Donald E. Nuechterlein offers a detailed examination of America's political, economic, military, and ideological priorities, explaining how these interests shape foreign policy decisions. Through historical perspectives and contemporary issues, the book explores t…
This volume examines how political leaders and institutions in the United States and the Soviet Union learn from past experiences in shaping their foreign policy decisions. Through comparative case studies, the contributors analyze the cognitive, organizational, and political factors that influence learning in both superpowers during the Cold War era. The book explores how successes and failure…
The Cold War, 1945–1972 by Ralph B. Levering offers a concise and analytical overview of the political, diplomatic, and ideological tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the early decades of the Cold War. As part of The American History Series, the book provides a clear narrative covering the origins of the conflict, the development of containment policies, crises suc…
This book puts American policy in Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker brings together a wide range of interviews on these and other issues, recorded by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, with key players in the making and execution of U.S. policy towards China since World War II. Historical events such as Nixon's trip to China, the Tiananmen Massacre, and the recurring Taiwan Straits crises come to life as never before. Por…
The contents of this book: 1. The Foreign Policy Presidency: Power and Problems 2. The Development of the National Security Council System 3. The National Security Council System at the End of the Cold War 4. Congress and Foreign Policy, etc.
At that time the Soviet Union still existed and the cold wat was very much alive, particularly with Ronald Reagan in the White House, and the Introduction reflects this. It is presented here because it offers a concise history of the cold war and a background to understanding the impetus behind, and the nature of, the many American interventions throughout the world. The actual case histories o…
The book focuses on the basic assumptions of U.S. foreign policy makers, their concepts of the priority interests of the United States, their assessments of the threats to those interests, and their premises about the power of the United States to affect the international situation. The substance of these assumptions is shown to be a crucial determinant of the constancy as well as the change in…
There is at last a lucid, penetrating and comprehensive guidebook for U.S. policy in the Third World. And Richard Feinberg has written it. The Intemperate Zone displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike