American Foreign Policy

In five case studies of US Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict....

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion....

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. But why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying....

Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State....

Mitchell's memoir will be a must read for anyone interested in politics and current affairs and will also fascinate anyone who wonders what it's like to be a powerful woman in a man's world....

My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime....

The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse....

This textbook introduces students to the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and political process.

If someone knew when and where the next major terrorist attack was to be to take place against America, wouldn't the US intelligence community want to know about it....

What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today....

Are China and the United States headed for war? Yes, say best-selling authors Jed Babbin (former deputy undersecretary of defense) and Edward Timperlake (veteran defense analyst)....

Working behind the scenes for 18 months, Woodward has written the most intimate and sweeping portrait of Obama making globally critical decisions....

New York Times best-selling author Tony Blankley prescribes a three-pronged approach as key to America's success in previous wars that must be "rediscovered" today....

A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence?...

In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....

A bracing assessment of US foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy....

Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs - that between the United States and China....

The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America's core relationships and tarnished credibility....

The Image of the Enemy examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to understand their main adversary....