The classic text on American foreign policy, Hook and Spanier’s book has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of the fi eld. With each new edition, the authors fi nd that new developments in foreign policy conform to their overarching theme—that there is an American “style” of foreign policy imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism. Giving students the historical context they need, the book allows them to truly grasp the functions and frequent dysfunctions of the nation’s foreign policy agenda.

Thoroughly updated, this nineteenth edition’s noteworthy revisions include:

• Comprehensive coverage of the most recent developments in world politics, including the “Arab Spring,” the global debt crisis, and the rise of China as a major world power;
• Extensive treatment of the gradual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, its ongoing war in Afghanistan, military operations in Pakistan, the takedown of Osama bin Laden, and the new U.S.–Russian START treaty;
• A look at the shifting balance of global power, including the relative decline of the United States, the rise of new powers, and the threats posed by transnational problems such as global warming;
• Exhaustive coverage of foreign policy under President Barack Obama and its connection to domestic politics, including: Obama’s efforts to revive U.S. credibility abroad, to wield soft power along with military muscle, and to extricate the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan;
• Expansion of the book’s theme regarding the American “style” of foreign policy as the authors apply it to the U.S.’s most recent actions on the world stage—many of which raise questions about the U.S. as an exceptional world power; and
• Coverage of new scholarly findings and policy debates that offers new insights on the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Reagan “revolution,” the end of the Cold War, and the U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Students will also find abundant resources in new or updated tables, figures, photos, and maps, as well as a robust set of appendices and end-of-chapter materials, including a chronology of world events and annotated web resources.

Thoroughly updated, this nineteenth edition’s noteworthy revisions include:

• Comprehensive coverage of the most recent developments in world politics, including the “Arab Spring,” the global debt crisis, and the rise of China as a major world power;
• Extensive treatment of the gradual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, its ongoing war in Afghanistan, military operations in Pakistan, the takedown of Osama bin Laden, and the new U.S.–Russian START treaty;
• A look at the shifting balance of global power, including the relative decline of the United States, the rise of new powers, and the threats posed by transnational problems such as global warming;
• Exhaustive coverage of foreign policy under President Barack Obama and its connection to domestic politics, including: Obama’s efforts to revive U.S. credibility abroad, to wield soft power along with military muscle, and to extricate the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan;
• Expansion of the book’s theme regarding the American “style” of foreign policy as the authors apply it to the U.S.’s most recent actions on the world stage—many of which raise questions about the U.S. as an exceptional world power; and
• Coverage of new scholarly findings and policy debates that offers new insights on the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Reagan “revolution,” the end of the Cold War, and the U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Contents

Maps, Tables, Figures, and Boxes 
Preface 

CHAPTER 1
The American Approach to Foreign Policy 

Learning from Experience 
The Roots of American Primacy 
 Shifts in the Balance of Power 
 Redefining American Security 
The American Sense of Destiny 
 A Skeptical View of Power Politics 
 Foreign Policy as Moral Mission 
Self-Doubts, Revisionism, and Social Construction 

Part I: The Cold War

CHAPTER 2
From World War to Cold War

American Wartime Illusions 
The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy 
 The Russian Background 
 The Soviet Ingredient 
Soviet Expansion after World War II 
 U.S.-Soviet Differences 
 The Soviet Push to the South 
The Strategy of Containment 
 George Kennan and the New Grand Strategy 
 Alternatives to Containment 
Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine 

CHAPTER 3
Containment: From Theory to Practice 

New Economic and Military Structures 
 The Bretton Woods System 
 The National Security Act 
Reviving the Western European Allies 
 The Marshall Plan 
 Roots of the European Union 
 European Security and the NATO Alliance 
 Recurring Conflicts over Berlin 
Confronting Revolution in East Asia 
 The Chinese Revolution 
 Hot War in Korea 
Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade 
Eisenhower’s ‘New Look’ in Foreign Policy

CHAPTER 4
North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War 

Developing Countries in the Crossfire 
Regional Conflicts in Latin America
 Guatemala’s Military Coup 
 The Cuban Missile Crisis
 Strong-Arming Chile 
Vietnam: The Limits of Containment 
 Eisenhower’s ‘Domino Theory’ 
 The Misconduct of Guerrilla Warfare 
 The Military Battlefield in Vietnam 
 The Political Battlefield at Home 
 American Defeat and Withdrawal 

CHAPTER 5
Détente and World-Order Politics 

Managing the Superpower Rivalry 
 Henry Kissinger’s World View 
 Exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split 
Arms Control and “Linkage” 
War and Peace in the Middle East 
 Early Arab-Israeli Wars
 The Camp David Accords
Blowback and the Soviet Power Play 
 Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution 
 America ‘Held Hostage’ in Iran 
 The Soviet Takeover in Afghanistan 

CHAPTER 6
The Revival of Superpower Confrontation 

Reagan’s Rhetorical Offensive 
Expanding U.S. Military Forces 
 Opposition to Arms Control 
 The Strategic Defense Initiative 
‘Rollback’ in Developing Countries 
 Evaluating the Reagan Doctrine 
 Abuses of the Reagan Doctrine: The Iran-Contra Scandal 
Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War 
 Poland and the Rise of Solidarity 
 The Missile Debate in Europe 
From Confrontation to Conciliation 

CHAPTER 7
The End of the Cold War 

Bush’s Management of the Soviet Collapse 
 Dismantling Stalin’s Empire 
 Detaching Brezhnev’s Outposts 
 Reducing Arms and Stabilizing the Nuclear Balance 
Endgame: The Collapse of the Core 
Reasons for the Soviet Collapse 
 The Contending Arguments in Perspective 
 Excesses of the Containment Policy 
A Final Appraisal 

Part II: The New World ‘Disorder’

CHAPTER 8
America’s ‘Unipolar Moment’ 

Great Expectations after the Cold War 
Revived Debates about America’s World Role 
Clinton’s Embrace of ‘Geoeconomics’ 
 The Course of America’s Economic Troubles 
 Responses by the Clinton Administration 
 East Asia’s Economic ‘Miracle’ 
Promoting Democracy and Sustainable Development 
 A Grand Strategy of Democratic ‘Enlargement’ 
 Support for Sustainable Development 
Domestic Challenges to Clinton’s Foreign Policy 

CHAPTER 9
Old Tensions in a New Order 

Sources of Global Fragmentation 
War and Peace in the Middle East 
 Iraq’s Challenge in the Persian Gulf 
 Obstacles to an Arab-Israeli Peace 
The Plight of ‘Failed States’ 
 Somalia and Central Africa 
 Haiti 
Nuclear Brinkmanship in South Asia 
Lessons from the Regional Crises 

CHAPTER 10
The Shifting European Landscape 

Western Europe: From Community to Union 
Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe 
NATO’s Search for a New Mission 
‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in the Balkans 
 The Dayton Accords 
 The Kosovo Showdown 
U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress 
 Internal Challenges to Reform 
 Unrest in the ‘Near Abroad’ 

CHAPTER 11
America under Fire 

Strains in the Unipolar Order 
 The Globalization Backlash 
 Retreat from Multilateralism 
The Growing Threat of ‘Sacred Terror’ 
 Early Warnings and Responses 
 The al Qaeda Connection 
Terror in the Morning Sky 
Elements of Counterterrorism 
 Intelligence 
 Diplomacy 
 Homeland Security 
A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption 

CHAPTER 12
Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 

The Afghanistan Campaign 
 Benign Neglect after the Cold War 
 Phase 1: Dislodging the Taliban 
 Phase 2: Nation Building in Rugged Terrain 
 The Pakistani Tinderbox 
Renewed Hostilities against Iraq
 Making the Case for War 
 Operation Iraqi Freedom 
 A Race against Time 
 A ‘New Way Forward’ 
Flashbacks to Vietnam 

CHAPTER 13
A World of Trouble 

Legacies of the Bush Era
 Internal Threats to Democracy
 The Financial Collapse of 2008
Obama’s Call for “Renewal”
Unfinished Business in the War on Terror
 The Pakistani Tinderbox
 Target Bin Laden
 Withdrawal From Iraq
Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation 
 Iran’s Quest for ‘Nuclear Rights’ 
 Nuclear Brinksmanship in North Korea

CHAPTER 14
The Balance of Power in Flux 

Cracks in the Unipolar Order
The Arab Spring and the U.S. Response
 Regime Change in Tunisia and Egypt
 NATO’s Libya Gambit
 Contagion in the Middle East
China’s Pacific Challenge
Struggles in Russia and the Eurozone
Rediscovering America

Appendix A: U.S. Administrations since World War II 
Appendix B: Chronology of Significant Events 
Appendix C: Select Bibliography 
Appendix D: Select Web Sites 
Appendix E: Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy 
Index 
Photo Credits 
About the Authors 

Steven W. Hook is a professor of political science at Kent State University. He is the author of several books, including U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power (3rd ed., 2011) and National Interest and Foreign Aid(1995). He has edited many anthologies, including most recently the Routledge of American Foreign Policy (2012, with Christopher Jones) and U.S. Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal? (2011, with James M. Scott) His articles have appeared in such journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Asian Survey, European Security, International Interactions, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Hook is a past president of the Foreign Policy Analysis sections of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association.

John Spanier received his PhD from Yale University. Since joining the faculty of the University of Florida in 1957, Spanier has lectured at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, the Naval War College, military service academies, and several universities. Among his many other books is Games Nations Play.