Diplomacy

At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development.

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "e;banana cowboy"e; pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.

The dominant tradition in writing about U.

Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people.

Shedding new light on how U.

Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America.

Whether to intervene in conflicts in the developing world is a major and ongoing policy issue for the United States.

The son of a minister, James A.

When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States.

In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.

Conversations with Milosevic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict.

Worldwide political changes have presented a unique opportunity for forging a new basis of international security relations.

In 1979, after a decade of enormous increases in the price of oil, U.

This volume is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of Central Asia as Russia has become more disengaged from the nations in the region and as these nations have developed new relations to the south, east, and west.

This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives.

In this capstone volume in the INE series, the authors review the growing pressure for deeper international integration, explore the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to dealing with these pressures, and present concrete proposals to help achieve a global community that will balance openness, diversity, and cohesion.

Do American policymakers really know what the American public wants in U.

Turkey is a longstanding ally of the United States and Europe.

The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance.

Foreign policy in the postcold war era is profoundly complex, and so too are the institutions that share the responsibility to guide and manage America's relations with other countries.

A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationIn the wake of the Taliban nightmare, Afghanistan must tackle serious problems before it can emerge as a confident, independent nation.

A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationRepressive regimes tyrannize their own citizens and threaten global stability and order.

A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth centuryTom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965.

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publicationFar from being another short-lived buzzword, "e;globalization"e; refers to real changes.

From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation.

"e;From cooperation to a new cold war: is this the future for today's two great powers?

A decade before being proclaimed part of the "e;axis of evil,"e; North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear weapons program mounted.

How Iranand the world around ithave changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took powerIran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late twentieth century.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

In July 1997, the promise of the !

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for International Security and Cooperation publicationWhat role should nuclear weapons play in today's world?

The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a "e;territorial dispute"e; between two belligerent neighbors in South Asia.

The democratic surge in the past twenty years has led many Americans to assume that all societies are, or should be, making progress toward becoming practicing democracies.

The paradox of U.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin improvised a system of "e;asymmetric federalism"e; to help maintain its successor state, the Russian Federation.

Over the past decade, international economic liberalization has been pursued through both multilateral and regional arrangements.

The foreign policy of the People's Republic of China has been dominated in recent decades by the problems of dealing with the other major powers in East Asia.

The world trading envionment changed dramatically in the 1980s.

Few analysts of U.

Western politicians, pundits, and the public were wholly unprepared for the violent conflicts erupting in eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War.

Buttressed by input from scholars, diplomats, and observers with an intimate knowledge of U.

This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.

The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance of power tips toward Beijing.

In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.

A Brookings Institution Press and the University of California Press publicationUpdated through the first term of President George W.

This is the first systematic history of U.

Turkey has always been a crossroads: the point where East meets West, Europe meets Asia, and Christianity meets Islam.