American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fourth Edition)

by Jentleson, Bruce W.

• ISBN13: 9780393933574
• ISBN10: 0393933571
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-16
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Addressing both foreign policy strategy and foreign policy politics, Bruce Jentleson'”respected scholar, award-winning teacher, and foreign policy practitioner'”offers students the theoretical framework, historical context, and policy analysis essential for understanding American foreign policy in the twenty-first century. Professor Jentleson focuses on foreign policy strategy and foreign policy politics and employs a four-part framework (the four Ps: Power, Peace, Prosperity, and Principles) through which students can begin to appreciate the problems and choices faced by the United States as it tries to steer a course through world events. The Fourth Edition of American Foreign Policy has been thoroughly updated with relevant political developments, including foreign policy changes instituted by the Obama administration.

Table of Contents

The Context of U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory and History

The Strategic Context: Foreign Policy Strategy and the Essence of Choice

The Domestic Context: Foreign Policy Politics and the Process of Choice

The Historical Context: Great Debates in American Foreign Policy, 1789-1945

The Cold War Context: Origins and First Stages

The Cold War Context: Lessons and Legacies

American Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Choices and Challenges

Foreign Policy Strategy and Foreign Policy Politics in a New Era

Post-Cold War Geopolitics: Major Powers and Regions

The Middle East: Special Focus

Never Again or Yet Again? Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention

The Globalization Agenda

The Coming of a Democratic Century?

The Context of U.S. Foreign Policy

Power: The Mainsprings of American Foreign Policy

Peace: Governance in a Partially Globalized World

Prosperity: The United States and World Economic Power

Principles: The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy: Early 1990s Perspective

The President and Congress: What the Founding Fathers Intended

Bureaucratic Politics: Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann Consensus

Isolationism vs. Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II

Imperialism: The American "New Empire"

Cold War Revisionist Critique: The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-48

Nuclear Deterrence Doctrine: Strategy in the Missile Age

Containment: The Sources of Soviet Conduct

Vietnam: The System Worked

Détente: The Search for a "Constructive Relationship"

End of the Cold War: The Unexpected Ronald Reagan

End of the Cold War: The Soviet Union's Crucial Role

American Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Choices and Challenges

Unilateralism: The Unipolar Moment Revisited

The United Nations: "We the Peoples"

America as the World's Government: The Case for Goliath

The Paradox of American Power: Superpower But Can't Go It Alone

Bush Doctrine on Pre-emption: Pre-emption and National Security Strategy

Bush Doctrine Critique: America's Imperial Ambition

9/11 Commission, A Global Strategy against Terrorism: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect: The Case for Humanitarian Intervention

Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers

The Media and Foreign Policy: The Media and U.S. Policies Toward Intervention: A Closer Look at the "CNN Effect"

UNAIDS, The Global AIDS Crisis: 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth

NGOs: Transitional Networks in International Politics: An Introduction

The Triumph of Democracy: The End of History?

Ongoing Threats to Democracy: The Clash of Civilizations?

Democratic Peace?: Democratization and the Danger of War

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