Does America Need a Foreign Policy?

In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, at once far-seeing and brilliantly readable, America's most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in this new millennium. In seven accessible chapters, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? provides a crystalline assessment of how the United States' ascendancy as the world's dominant presence in the twentieth century may be effectively reconciled with the urgent need in the twenty-first century to achieve a bold new world order. With a new Afterword by the author that addresses the situation in the aftermath of September 11, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? asks and answers the most pressing questions of our nation today.

CONTENTS

ONE
America at the Apex: Empire or Leader?

The Changing Nature of the International Environment . America's Challenge

TWO
America and Europe: The World of Democracies I

The Transformation of the Atlantic Relationship . The Change in Atlantic and European Leadership . The Future of European Integration . European Integration and Atlantic Cooperation . Strategic Doctrine: European Military Crisis Management . Strategic Doctrine: Missile Defense and the Atlantic Alliance . Relations with Russia . Toward a New Structure in Atlantic Relations

THREE
The Western Hemisphere: The World of Democracies II

Revolution in the Region . New Challenges . Is There a Road Out of Chaos? Plan Colombia . The Promise of the Western Hemisphere . NAFTA and Mercosur

FOUR
Asia: The World of Equilibrium

Asia's Geopolitical Complexity . Relations with Japan . Relations with Korea . Relations with China: The Historical Context . Relations with China: The Strategic Context . Taiwan and China . India . Where Do We Go from Here?

FIVE
The Middle East and Africa: Worlds in Transition

The Arab-Israeli Conflict . Where Do We Go from Here? . America and the Gulf . Iraq . Iran . Whither Africa? . The African Environment . Toward an African Policy

SIX
The Politics of Globalization

Economics and Politics . Crisis Management and the International Monetary Fund . Political Evolution and Globalization

SEVEN
Peace and Justice

The American Tradition . Roosevelt and Wilson . The New Interventionism . Humanitarian Intervention and the National Interest: Four Principles . Humanitarian Intervention and the Context of History . Universal Jurisdiction

CONCLUSION
Information and Knowledge

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