Contemporary American Foreign Policy: Influences, Challenges, and Opportunities looks at today’s most pressing foreign-policy challenges from a U.S. perspective, as well as from the vantage point of other states and peoples. It explores global issues such as human rights, climate change, poverty, nuclear arms proliferation, and economic collapse from multiple angles, not just through a so-called national interest lens. Authors Richard Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor shed new light on the competing forces that influence foreign-policy decision making, outline the various policy options available to decision makers, and explore the potential consequences of those policies, all to fully grasp and work to meet contemporary foreign-policy challenges.
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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?
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Kirsten Taylor (BA University of Pittsburgh, Ph D Mc Gill University) is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Government and International Studies at Berry College, a private liberal arts college in Northwest Georgia. Her scholarship focuses on the development and transformation of international institutions and norms, with particular emphases on security and environmental institutions, teaching with simulations. Her articles have appeared in International Studies Perspectives, Canadian Journal of Political Science and Comparative Strategy. Dr. Taylor also is co-author of a textbook, Introduction to Global Politics, with Richard Mansbach.
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