Until you’ve consumed all of the best Foreign Policy books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy (2017)
- Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (2010)
- Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (2016)
- A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (2018)
- US Foreign Policy 3e (2018)
- American Foreign Policy Since World War II (2018)
- American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fifth Edition) (2013)
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2013)
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2008)
- U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power (2016)
- America’s Foreign Policy Toolkit: Key Institutions and Processes (2012)
- US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower (2014)
- American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future (2017)
- Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (2006)
- Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2002)
A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy (2017)
Now in a fully updated edition that goes through the Obama administration and the election of Donald Trump, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding to the present. Joyce P. Kaufman provides students with a clear and concise understanding of key decisions and why they were made.
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (2010)
Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such pivotal events as World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and 9/11.
Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (2016)
This ground breaking text provides the ideal introduction to the ever-changing field of foreign policy. With a unique combination of theories, actors and cases in a single volume, the expert contributors provide students with a valuable and accessible introduction to what foreign policy is and how it is conducted.
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (2018)
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. Respect for sovereignty alone cannot uphold order in an age defined by global challenges from terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons to climate change and cyberspace. Meanwhile, great power rivalry is returning.
US Foreign Policy 3e (2018)
Giving students a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected, US Foreign Policy, Third Edition, is the student toolkit for navigating the ever-changing dynamics of the subject area.Using the book, students learn how to critically assess US foreign policy, as they are presented with diverse political perspectives and given the tools to come to their own conclusions.Carefully developed “major debat…
American Foreign Policy Since World War II (2018)
The Gold Standard for Textbooks on American Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy Since World War II provides you with an understanding of America’s current challenges by exploring its historical experience as the world’s predominant power since World War II.
American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fifth Edition) (2013)
A balanced and contemporary introduction to U.S. foreign policy, with a built-in reader. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, American Foreign Policy focuses on foreign policy strategy as well as foreign policy politics. The heavily revised Fifth Edition offers greater emphasis on the role that domestic politics and institutions (both formal and informal) play in shaping American foreign policy.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2013)
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2008)
The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America: the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power (2016)
The same aspects of American government and society that propelled the United States to global primacy have also hampered its orderly and successful conduct of foreign policy. This paradox challenges U.S. leaders to overcome threats to America′s world power in the face of fast-moving global developments and political upheavals at home. The fully updated Fifth Edition of Steven W. Hook’s U.S.
America’s Foreign Policy Toolkit: Key Institutions and Processes (2012)
How is foreign policy in the United States really crafted? In America′s Foreign Policy Toolkit, Charles A. Stevenson identifies what the key foreign policy tools are, which are best for which tasks, and what factors constrain or push how they′re used, bringing fresh insight into the challenges facing national security decisionmakers.
US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower (2014)
Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation.
American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future (2017)
Glenn Hastedt’s clear and succinct introduction to the field prepares students to think about America’s changing role in the world and to develop the critical thinking skills needed to participate in the debate about the conduct and content of American f…
Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (2006)
The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time.
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2002)
“God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America.”–Otto von BismarckAmerica’s response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country’s longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America’s economic interests, to spread democracy in totalitarian regimes and to vanquish the enemy utterly.One of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers,
Best Foreign Policy Books to Read
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Foundations, US Foreign Policy and Anti-racism in Brazil: Pushing Racial Democracy
Author(s): Elizabeth Cancelli, Gustavo Mesquita, Wanderson Chaves
ID: 3541712, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Russia's 2022 War Against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, and Law
Author(s): Luigi Lonardo
ID: 3599531, Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty
Author(s): Thorsten Wojczewski
ID: 3627944, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023, Size: 6 Mb, Format: pdf
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