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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It
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Joshua Cooper Ramo
Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order.
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
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John J Mearsheimer, Stephen M Walt
Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the U.S. provides to Israel. In this important work, they argue that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds, but is due largely to the political influence of a few.
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
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Thomas L Friedman
The essays in this collection, by the Foreign Affairs columnist for the New York Times, provide analysis and perspective on issues and events relating to September 11. Most were written during Friedman's extensive travels throughout the Middle East and the world. Included is the never-before-published "Diary: Travels in a World Without Walls." A ...
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Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad
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John Bolton
The son of a Baltimore fireman and the first person in his family to go to university, with scholarships to Yale College and Yale Law School, John Bolton candidly recounts his sixteen month tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations, his Senate confirmation battle, and the highlights of his career in public service in two prior Republican ...
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
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Ron Suskind
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Price of Loyalty" takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the United States and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists armed with weapons of alarming power.
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The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
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Professor Andrew J Bacevich
In this provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology - of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This perilous union, Bacevich argues, commits ...
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Engaging the Muslim World
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Juan Cole
With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today--from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right--and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. Cole's unique ability to take the true Muslim perspective into account ...
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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
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Joseph S Nye, Jr.
This prescription for America's role in the world counsels against unilateralism and favors an engagement with the world that balances U.S. military might with what the author calls its "soft power"--which is derived from its culture, values, and way of life. The author sees this as a potent force that can be used for good.
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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
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Philip Bobbitt
The wars against terror have begun, but it will take some time before the nature and composition of these wars is widely understood. The objective of these wars is not the conquest of territory, or the silencing of any particular ideology, but rather to secure the necessary environment for states to operate according to principles of consent and ...
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Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World
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Dennis Ross
In this thought-provoking book, renowned peace negotiator Ross argues that the Bush administrations problems stem from its inability to use the tools of statecraft--diplomatic, economic, and military--to advance the nations interests around the world.
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The New Imperialism
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Professor David Harvey
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength of or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing ...
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Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
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A Roy
Booker Prizewinning novelist Arundhati Roy is also a powerful speaker, and here, in the form of essays, she collects her speeches on the subjects of imperialism, globalization, and what she sees as the disastrous occupation of Iraq by American troops during the administration of George W. Bush. Roy believes that the world is being taken over, ...
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U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900
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Robert D Schulzinger
Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible survey available, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, has now been revised and update for a fifth edition. The book traces the major events in the history of U.S. foreign relations from the Spanish-American War to the present. Robert D. Schulzinger, one of the nation's premier historians of U.S. foreign ...
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Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
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Robert Draper
Dead Certain is a story told in six sections. Beginning with an immersion into Bush the nascent politician (entitled "Baptism"), we see in "Through Our Tears" a mandate-less new President evincing both collegiality and defensiveness as he pursues his conservative agenda. "Dark City On A Hill" describes the contentiousness that attends the roll-up ...
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To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine
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Melvyn P Leffler (Editor), Jeffrey W Legro (Editor)
U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged down in a seemingly endless and unwinnable war. In To Lead the World, Melvyn P. ...
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Interventions
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Professor Noam Chomsky
Chomsky has collected more than 30 essays aimed at various aspects of U.S. power and politics in the post-9/11 world. Each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention aimed at raising public ire about the consequences of the U.S. abuse of power at home and abroad.
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After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age
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Paul Starobin
Moving beyond Fareed Zakaria's bestselling "The Post-American World," veteran international correspondent Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the U.S. is no longer the dominant superpower.
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Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
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Stephen M Walt
The United States currently wields unprecedented global power. Americans often assume that their global role is benevolent and their dominant position unchallenged, but other countries are increasingly worried about US dominance and are beginning to turn their concerns into action. In this elegant and provocative new book, professor and renowned ...
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Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy
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Loch K Johnson
With an extremely accessible, engaging style, this brief, inexpensive book will provoke class discussions and motivate critical thinking through its analysis of American foreign policy. Loch Johnson, a renowned expert in the field, identifies and analyzes seven major shortcomings -- "sins" -- of American foreign policy that he argues have ...
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America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
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Stefan Halper, Jonathan Clarke
America Alone explores how George W. Bush's election, and the fear and confusion of September 11, 2001, combined to allow a small group of radical intellectuals to seize the reins of U.S. national security policy. It shows how, at this 'inflection point' in U.S. history an inexperienced president was persuaded to abandon his campaign pledges (and ...
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Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy
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Audrey Kurth Cronin (Editor), James M Ludes (Editor)
The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. citizens have had their eyes opened to a new world where this nightmare stalks the daily news and is never far from ...
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Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
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Josef Joffe
Effortlessly mixing military history with diplomatic analysis, Josef Joffe examines the transformation of the United States from a coalition-building superpower to a sprawling and surly uberpower, constrained only by the consequences of its unilateral actions. America is now tempted to throw its weight around, neglect old allies and bypass ...
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Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
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Leslie H Gelb
A provocative account of the use and misuse of power in international affairs, from one of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace
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Walter Mosley
Mosley has crafted a deeply personal and political proposal, offering a commonsense approach to the challenge of finding world peace in a post-9/11 world. He explores what the terrorist attacks meant to him and challenges African Americans to use their unique position to help create a new kind of peace between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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How to Ruin the United States of America
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Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth, PH.D.
On the heels of his very successful books, "How to Ruin Your Life, How to Ruin Your Love Life," and "How to Ruin Your Financial Life," Stein, in collaboration with DeMuth, comes up with surefire ways to ruin the greatest nation in the history of the human race.
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