Practical Lessons from US Foreign Policy

In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world. In this book, a diplomat and a historian revisit that perception by examining and reproducing several of their own essays during the past twenty years. The essays reveal that Trump's style exaggerates tendencies towards unilateralism already present in the actions, if not the policies, of previous presidents, and in their neglect of three imperatives: collective security, regional integration, and diplomatic imagination. It is not too late, however, to remedy the problem by learning the lessons of the recent past.

Acts as a compelling and thought-provoking challenge to the conventional wisdom of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations Covers the transition from what is usually thought of as the post-Cold War era to an era characterized by a struggle to define a new international system Provides both a contemporary history of this period in the United States and a collection of lessons learned from the mistakes and successes during an era of rapid change

Autorentext
James E. Goodby is Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, USA. He is a retired diplomat who was involved in the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in the negotiation of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, START, the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and cooperative threat reduction (the Nunn-Lugar program).
Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is a former defense analyst who has worked at the Atlantic Council of the United States, the European University Institute, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Inhalt
Chapter One: Introduction: How Did We Get Here?.- Chapter Two: Global Challenges.- Chapter Three: National Policies.- Chapter Four: Regional Problems.- Chapter Five: Regional Solutions.- Chapter Six: Conclusion: What Have We Learned?