Contemporary American foreign policy : influences, challenges, and opportunities /: influences, challenges, and opportunities. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard W. (Wallace) Mansbach, Kirsten L. (Lee) Taylor.
• Authors: Mansbach, Richard W, 1943-; Taylor, Kirsten L
• Contents: 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?;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Washigton, D.C : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.7300905; United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483324678
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