Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide

by Chollet; Derek

• ISBN13: 9780415962261
• ISBN10: 0415962269
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P EM Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide /EM is an outgrowth of a Stanley Foundation initiative bringing together foreign policy and national security specialists from across the political spectrum to find common ground on ten key, controversial areas of policy. For each topic, a conservative and a progressive expert, some of the leading thinkers of their generation, jointly author a chapter outlining their points of agreement on such subjects as the use of force, democracy promotion, countering terrorism, detainee treatment, China, and national defense. /P P As in the wider political arena, two-dimensional images of progressive and conservative views on national security are major obstacles to the search for new ideas and solutions. In EM Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide /EM , leading analysts will help build a more constructive debate by looking past philosophical differences and identifying effective approaches to the major national security challenges confronting the United States. The project givesexperts an opportunity to examine politically sensitive issues on the merits and resist the distortions and oversimplifications of today's polarizing environment. /P

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
America and the Use of Force: Sources of Legitimacy	p. 7
How to Keep From Overselling or Underestimating the United Nations	p. 21
The Cost of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities in Detainee Treatment	p. 34
Course Correction in America's War on Terror	p. 53
The Case for Larger Ground Forces	p. 66
A Full-Court Press Against Nuclear Anarchy	p. 86
Keeping Tabs on China's Rise	p. 103
Are We All Nation-Builders Now?	p. 124
Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?	p. 147
In Defense of Values	p. 169
Contributors	p. 189
Index	p. 194
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