Annual Editions: American Foreign Policy 06/07

by Hastedt, Glenn P.

• ISBN13: 9780073545851
• ISBN10: 0073545856
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

This twelfth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

Table of Contents

Preface	iv
Topic Guide	xii
Internet References	xv
UNIT 1 The United States and the World: Strategic Choices
Unit Overview	xviii
Grand Strategy in the Second Term	3	(6)
John Lewis Gaddis
Hegemony on the Cheap	9	(8)
Colin Dueck
Reaganism v. Neo-Reaganism	17	(5)
Richard Lowry
The Eagle Has Crash Landed	22	(5)
Immanuel Wallerstein
Some Hard Truths about Multilateralism	27	(10)
Jonathan Tepperman
UNIT 2 The United States and the World: Regional and Bilateral Relations
Unit Overview	34	(3)
Part A. Russia
Exploiting Rivalries: Putin's Foreign Policy	37	(5)
Mark N. Katz
The United States and Russia in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran	42	(4)
Fiona Hill
Part B. Europe
America as European Hegemon	46	(8)
Christopher Layne
Part C. Asia
China's Response to the Bush Doctrine	54	(7)
Peter Van Ness
Japan: America's New South Korea?	61	(4)
James E. Auer
Robyn Lim
Part D. The South
The U.S. and Latin America Through the Lens of Empire	65	(6)
Michael Shifter
Libya: Who Blinked, and Why	71	(5)
George Joffe
Darfur and the Genocide Debate	76	(6)
Scott Straus
UNIT 3 The Domestic Side of American Foreign Policy
Unit Overview	80	(2)
The Paradoxes of American Nationalism	82	(5)
Minxin Pei
Doctrinal Divisions: The Politics of U.S. Military Interventions	87	(4)
Jon Western
Missed Signals	91	(10)
Sherry Ricchiardi
UNIT 4 The Institutional Context of American Foreign Policy
Unit Overview	98	(3)
Part A. The Presidency
The Return of the Imperial Presidency?	101	(4)
Donald R. Wolfensberger
Part B. The Bureaucracy
In Defense of Striped Pants	105	(3)
Morton Abramowitz
Leslie H. Gelb
Part C. Judiciary
Checks, Balances, and Wartime Detainees	108	(12)
Benjamin Wittes
UNIT 5 The Foreign Policy-Making Process
Unit Overview	118	(2)
``Misunderestimating'' Terrorism: The State Department's Big Mistake	120	(4)
Alan Krueger
David Laitin
Words vs. Deeds: President George W. Bush and Polling	124	(4)
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
The Pros From Dover	128	(9)
John Prados
UNIT 6 U.S. International Economic Strategy
Unit Overview	134	(3)
America's Sticky Power	137	(5)
Walter Russell Mead
Global Petro-Politics: The Foreign Policy Implications of the Bush Administration's Energy Plan	142	(6)
Michael T. Klare
Africa and the Battle over Agricultural Protectionism	148	(8)
Todd Moss
Alicia Bannon
UNIT 7 U.S. Military Strategy
Unit Overview	154	(2)
Part A. The Use of Force
X + 9/11	156	(2)
Robert Hutchings
A Nuclear Posture for Today	158	(5)
John Deutch
Part B. Arms Control
Double-edged Shield	163	(4)
Sarah Chankin-Gould
Ivan Oelrich
Apocalypse Soon	167	(7)
Robert S. McNamara
UNIT 8 The Iraq War and Beyond
Unit Overview	172	(2)
Lifting the Veil: Understanding the Roots of Islamic Militancy	174	(3)
Henry Munson
The Sorcerer's Apprentices	177	(8)
Angelo Codevilla
The Ethics of Exit	185	(4)
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Taking on Tehran	189	(6)
Kenneth Pollack
Ray Takeyh
Iran's Nuclear Calculations	195	(5)
Ray Takeyh
Index	200	(4)
Test Your Knowledge Form	204	(1)
Article Rating Form	205