Chapter 1: The United States in a Turbulent World

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The American Foreign Policy Council (www.afpc.org) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on democratization and bilateral and regional relationships between the United States and other countries. The organization has programs in Russia, China, and Asia to produce research regarding trade, defense, and other policy issues.

The Brookings Institution (www.brook.edu) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank located in Washington, D.C. Brookings has a number of scholars, fellows, and academics who produce policy reports, briefs, and books related to U.S. foreign policy. Specific areas of interest are trade, defense, diplomacy, international institutions, and bilateral relations with foreign countries.

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (www.carnegiecouncil.org) focuses on human rights, conflict, environmental issues, economic disparities, and political reconciliation in the world. Scholars produce research briefs and books regarding current topics that analyze the ethics of international relations with a specific focus on the U.S. role in these policy issues. The Carnegie Council puts out a number of publications, including the journal Ethics and International Affairs, many of which are available online through the “publications” link on their home page.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (www.ceip.org) is a private, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization that focuses on global change by examining international organizations, bilateral relations, and political-economic forces in the world. Special focus is devoted to United States–Russia relationships as well as geopolitics involving the United States and other countries. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is also responsible for publishing Foreign Policy, one of the leading magazines for discussing world politics and foreign policy with a specific emphasis on the United States. Foreign Policy is available online at www.foreignpolicy.com.

The Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org) studies international affairs, foreign policy, and the role of the United States in the world. The council covers an array of issues focusing on the United States, such as trade, defense, security, globalization, terrorism, specific regions, energy resources and the environment, and political systems. The council also publishes Foreign Affairs (online at www.foreignaffairs.org), which is a leading journal featuring scholarly analysis of these issues.

The Department of State (www.state.gov) manages many aspects of diplomacy, including foreign aid, peace building, democratization, disease and poverty prevention, and many other facets of the U.S. foreign-policy process. The department’s Web site provides speeches, policy descriptions, and issue explanations for those studying American foreign policy.

The Foreign Policy Association (www.fpa.org) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of educating legislators and the American public on U.S. foreign-policy issues. It focuses on all aspects of U.S. foreign policy, with an emphasis on current events and global issues. The association provides reports, videos, and books on regional and specific policy issues.

Foreign Policy in Focus (www.fpif.org) is a think tank that writes policy reports focusing on the United States and its role in the world. Topics of specific policy briefs and reports include, but are not limited to, human rights, regional relationships, bilateral relationships, defense funding and procurement, terrorism, trade, energy, and environmental issues.

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (www.fpri.org) is a research-based organization that focuses on studying U.S. national interests, the war on terrorism, security relationships, and long-term policy planning. The research is based on a multidisciplinary approach including scholars and advisers from economics, politics, law, the media, and history. ORBIS, a quarterly journal published by FPRI (online at www.fpri.org/orbis), consists of reports from conferences and work by scholars regarding U.S. and world national interests.

The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (www.ifpa.org) provides briefings for foreign-policy students who are interested in costs, benefits, and planning of U.S. foreign policy. The institute covers a variety of issues but focuses on globalization, missile defense, international institutions, and grand strategies.

The RAND Corporation (www.rand.org) is a private research group focusing on international affairs, homeland security, terrorism, and U.S. national security issues. It also produces reports on individual countries that have close ties to the United States. RAND produces the RAND Review (online at www.rand.org/publications/randreview), a magazine about current security and defense issues.

Additional Links of Interest

Ethics and International Affairs (www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmID/1091)

Foreign Affairs (www.foreignaffairs.org)

Foreign Policy (www.foreignpolicy.com)

Foreign Policy Analysis (http://csf.colorado.edu/isafp/)

Harvard International Review (www.hir.harvard.edu)

International Interactions (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03050629.asp)

International Organization (http://journals.cambridge.org)

International Security (http://mitpress.mit.edu/isec)

International Studies Quarterly (www.isq.unt.edu)

Journal of Conflict Resolution (www.yale.edu/unsy/jcrhome1.htm)

Journal of Peace Research (www.prio.no/jpr)

National Interest (www.nationalinterest.org)

RAND Review (www.rand.org/publications/randreview/)

SAIS Review (www.saisreview.org)

World Policy Journal (www.worldpolicy.org/journal/index.html)

Suggested Readings Cited in Chapter 1

de Wijk, Rob. 2002. “The Limits of Military Power.” Washington Quarterly 25 (Winter): 75–93.

Dizard, Wilson, Jr. 2001. Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Gilpin, Robert. 1981. War and Change in World Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hook, Steven W., and John Spanier. 2007. American Foreign Policy Since World War II. 17th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1982. “American Ideals versus American Institutions.” Political Science Quarterly 97 (Spring): 1–37.

Kennedy, Paul. 1987. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House.

Krasner, Stephen D. 1978. Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Nye, Joseph S., Jr. 2004. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs.

Pillar, Paul R. 2001. Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

Posen, Barry R., and Andrew L. Ross. 1996–1997. “Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy.” International Security 21 (Winter): 5–53.

Risse-Kappen, Thomas. 1995. Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Rose, Gideon. 2000–2001. “Democracy Promotion and American Foreign Policy.” International Security 25 (Winter): 186–203.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: Norton.

Waltz, Kenneth N. 1997. “Evaluating Theories.” American Political Science Review 91: 913–918.

Woodward, Bob. 2006. State of Denial: Bush at War. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Suggested Readings Following the Themes of Chapter 1

Brezinski, Zbigniew. 1998. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. New York: HarperCollins.

Haas, Richard. 1999. “What to Do with American Primacy.” Foreign Affairs 78 (September–October): 37–49.

Hendrickson, David C. 2005. “The Curious Case of American Hegemony.” World Policy Journal 22 (2): 1-22.

Hirsh, Michael. 2003. At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jervis, Robert. 2005. “Why the Bush Doctrine Cannot Be Sustained.” Political Science Quarterly 120 (3): 351-377.

Johnson, Chalmers A. 2004. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Johnson, Chalmers. 2000. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Kagan, Robert 2003. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. New York: Random House.

Kegley, Charles W., Jr., ed. 2003. The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, Controls. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Krugman, Paul R. 2003. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. New York: W. W. Norton.

Kupchan, Charles A. 2002. The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Random House.

Lake, David. 2006. “American Hegemony and the Future of East–West Relations.” International Studies Perspectives 7 (1): 23-30.

Neack, Laura. 2003. The New Foreign Policy: U.S. and Comparative Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield.

Nye, Joseph S., Jr. 2002. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone. New York: Oxford University Press.

Prestowitz, Clyde V. 2003. Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions. New York: Basic Books.

Rose, Gideon, and James F. Hoge Jr., eds. 2002. America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press.

Wittkopf, Eugene R., and James M. McCormick, eds. 2004. The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. 4th ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield.

Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W. W. Norton.