Present Dangers

by Kagan, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781893554139
• ISBN10: 1893554139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000. Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
I. An Overview
Introduction: National Interest and Global Responsibility	3	(22)
William Kristol
Robert Kagan
The Great Divide: American Internationalism and its Opponents	25	(22)
James W. Ceasar
II. The Mounting Threat
China: The Challenge of a Rising Power	47	(28)
Ross H. Munro
Russia: The Challenge of a Failing Power	75	(24)
Peter W. Rodman
Iraq: Saddam Unbound	99	(12)
Richard N. Perle
Iran: Fundamentalism and Reform	111	(34)
Reuel Marc Gerecht
North Korea: Beyond Appeasement	145	(34)
Nicholas Eberstadt
III. Allies and Military Assets
Europe and NATO: Saving the Alliance	179	(18)
Jeffrey Gedmin
Asian Allies: True Strategic Partners	197	(24)
Aaron L. Friedberg
Israel and the ``Peace Process''	221	(20)
Elliott Abrams
The Decline of America's Armed Forces	241	(26)
Frederick W. Kagan
Weapons Proliferation and Missile Defense: The Strategic Case	267	(22)
William Schneider
IV. American Leadership: Strength and Principle
Morality, Character and American Foreign Policy	289	(18)
William J. Bennett
Statesmanship in the New Century	307	(30)
Paul Wolfowitz
Strength and Will: A Historical Perspective	337	(26)
Donald Kagan
About the Authors	363	(4)
Notes	367	(20)
Index	387