Contemporary American Foreign Policy

Contemporary American Foreign Policy

Influences, Challenges, and Opportunities

Mansbach, Richard W. (Wallace); Taylor, Kirsten L.

SAGE Publications Inc

02/2016

568

Mole

Inglês

9781452287232

15 a 20 dias

850

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Introduction
Competing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy
Organization of the Book
Pedagogical Tools
Part I. Policy Orientations
Chapter 1: Sources of American Foreign Policy
The Linkage of Domestic and Foreign Policies
Sources of Foreign-Policy Influence
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Competing Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy
Competing Currents
Past: Competing Currents in Historical Perspective
Present: The Impact of 9/11
Conclusion: Engagement or Disengagement?
Part II. Challenges in Key Issue Areas
Chapter 3: American Military Strategy in an Era of Power Diffusion
Sources of U.S. Military Strategy
Past: Managing Superpower Rivalry
Present: Grand Strategy in a Changing World
Future: Adapting to a Changing Environment
Conclusion: A Changing Strategic Environment
Chapter 4: America and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Past: Proliferation in the First Nuclear Age
Present: Proliferation in the Second Nuclear Age
Nonproliferation and the Future
Conclusion: A Dangerous World
Chapter 5: An American Economic Conundrum: Neoliberalism or Neo-Mercantilism?
Sources of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy
Past: The Evolution of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy
Present: Contemporary Economic Challenges
Future: Foreign Economic Policy
Conclusion: America and the Globalized Economy
Chapter 6: Democracy and Human Rights: Legitimate Objectives of American Policy?
Sources of U.S. Human-Rights Policies
Past: Discerning Trends in U.S. Human Rights Policy
Present: Recent Challenges to Democracy Promotion and Human Rights
Future: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights
Human Rights and National Security
Conclusion: An Inconsistent Human Rights Record
Chapter 7: The U.S. and the Global South: Practicing Intervention, Aid, and Neglect
Sources of U.S. Aid and Intervention
Past: U.S. Aid and Intervention
Present: Challenges in the Global South
Future: Balancing Aid, Intervention, and Neglect
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Energy and the Environment: The Limits of U.S. Leadership
Sources of U.S. Environmental and Energy Policies
Past: Changing Trends in U.S. Environmental Leadership
Future: Environmental and Energy Alternatives
Conclusion: Environment and Energy Issues
Part III: Challenges in Key Regions and Countries
Chapter 9: America and the Palestinian-Israeli Imbroglio
Sources of U.S. Policy toward Israel
Past: From Israel's Birth to the Six-Day War, 1948-1967
Present, 1967-2015
Future: Disputed Issues
Conclusion: Is Peace Possible?
Chapter 10: Arab Spring or Arab Winter?
Sources of U.S. Policy toward the Arab World
Past: Before the Arab Spring
Present: Stirrings of Spring
Future: An Arab Winter?
Conclusion: Arab Spring or Arab Winter?
Chapter 11: America and Radical Islam
Sources of U.S. Policy toward Terrorism
The Islamic Past
Present: The War on Terror
Future: Is the War on Terror Over?
Conclusion: Have We Won?
Chapter 12: The United States and China: Engagement or Containment?
Sources of American Policy toward China
Past: From Hostility to Engagement
Present: Partners or Adversaries?
Future: Balancing Cooperation and Conflict
Conclusion: Containment or Engagement?
Chapter 13: America, Europe, and NATO: A Changing Partnership
Sources of U.S. Policy toward Europe
Past: The New World and the Old
Present: NATO's Changing Mission
Future: NATO Reinvented
Conclusion: NATO Redux
Chapter 14: America and Russia: Values versus Power
Past: A Bipolar World
Present: From Cooperation to Conflict
Future: Churchill's "Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma"
Conclusion: Did the "Reset" Succeed?
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 15: Conclusion: America, a Wary Hegemon
The Evolution of American Foreign Policy before the Cold War
After the Cold War
Contemporary Foreign-Policy Challenges
What Next?
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