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It is often said that voters hold presidents responsible for two
things: the economy and foreign policy. Economic performance is
generally beyond presidential control, but foreign policy is
defined by the president. The White House is justifiably blamed or
credited for how it manages relations with the outside world. How,
then, can presidents maximize their chances to achieve successful
foreign policies? What kinds of considerations should they bear in
mind as they make important decisions for their country? Foreign
policy begins with the process of making decisions. This briefing
book examines foreign policy decision-making, and offers advice to
current and future presidents drawn from fields ranging from
political science and history, to psychology and economics. It
identifies basic guidelines that presidents should consider when
making choices. Such guidelines apply to almost any area of human
endeavour, and they are certainly central to choices made in and
outside of the Oval Office. When the strong make mistakes, the weak
often suffer. As the strongest country in the history of the world,
the United States has a special responsibility to run a sagacious
foreign policy. This briefing book will benefit students, policy
makers, and the general public.
It is often said that voters hold presidents responsible for two
things: the economy and foreign policy. Economic performance is
generally beyond presidential control, but foreign policy is
defined by the president. The White House is justifiably blamed or
credited for how it manages relations with the outside world. How,
then, can presidents maximize their chances to achieve successful
foreign policies? What kinds of considerations should they bear in
mind as they make important decisions for their country? Foreign
policy begins with the process of making decisions. This briefing
book examines foreign policy decision-making, and offers advice to
current and future presidents drawn from fields ranging from
political science and history, to psychology and economics. It
identifies basic guidelines that presidents should consider when
making choices. Such guidelines apply to almost any area of human
endeavour, and they are certainly central to choices made in and
outside of the Oval Office. When the strong make mistakes, the weak
often suffer. As the strongest country in the history of the world,
the United States has a special responsibility to run a sagacious
foreign policy. This briefing book will benefit students, policy
makers, and the general public.
What horrors will the twenty-first century bring? For many people,
a clash of civilizations and a perilous return to great power
rivalries are the dominant visions of things to come. Fueled by
daily headlines, overwhelming majorities of people from all walks
of life consider the world to be a far more chaotic, frightening,
and ultimately more dangerous place than ever before. Christopher
J. Fettweis argues that these impressions, however widespread, are
wrong. "Dangerous Times?" is an examination of international
politics that reveals both theoretical logic and empirical data
that support the vision of a future where wars between great powers
are unlikely and transnational threats can be contained. Despite
popular perception, today a far greater percentage of the world's
population lives in peace than at any time in history, and the
number and intensity of all types of warfare have dropped steadily
since the early 1990s. Terrorism, though reprehensible, can be
combated and can actually increase international cooperation among
states fighting a common threat. World wars like those of the
twentieth century-the true clash of civilizations-are unlikely to
be repeated in the close-knit world of the twenty-first century. In
this sharp and insightful book, Fettweis discusses this revolution
in human history and its ramifications for international relations
theory. He suggests a new vision for a more restrained U.S. grand
strategy and foreign policy and reveals how, despite pessimistic
perceptions to the contrary, the world is more likely entering a
golden age of peace and security.
A sweeping yet concise account of history's empires that managed to
maintain dominance for long stretches. What should the United
States do with its power? What goals should it have, and how should
it pursue them? Ultimately, what do Americans want their country to
be? These are questions of grand strategy. The United States is the
most powerful actor in the international system, but it is facing a
set of challenges that might lead to its decline as this century
unfolds. In The Pursuit of Dominance, Christopher J. Fettweis
examines the grand strategy of previous superpowers to see how they
maintained, or failed to maintain, their status. Over the course of
six cases, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire, he seeks
guidance from the past for present US policymakers. Like the United
States, the examples Fettweis uses were the world' strongest powers
at particularly moments in time, and they were hoping to stay that
way. Rather than focusing on those powers' rise or how they ruled,
however, Fettweis looks at how they sought to maintain their power.
From these cases, one paramount lesson becomes clear: Dominant
powers usually survive even the most incompetent leaders. Fettweis
is most interested in how these superpowers defined their
interests, the grand strategies these regimes followed to maintain
superiority over their rivals, and how the practice of that
strategy worked. A sweeping history of grand strategy, The Pursuit
of Dominance looks at the past 2,000 years to highlight what-if
anything-current US strategists can learn from the experience of
earlier superpowers.
The foreign policy of the United States is guided by deeply held
beliefs, few of which are recognized much less subjected to
rational analysis, Christopher J. Fettweis writes, in this, his
third book. He identifies the foundations of those beliefs - fear,
honor, glory and hubris - and explains how they have inspired poor
strategic decisions in Washington. He then proceeds to discuss
their origins. The author analyzes recent foreign policy mistakes,
including the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War, and
he considers the decision-making process behind them, as well as
the beliefs inspiring those decisions. The American government's
strategic performance, Professor Fettweis argues, can be improved
if these pathological beliefs are recognized and eliminated.
The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold
War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and
optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a
quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with
the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil
discord disrupting political and social norms around the world.
This book reveals the extent to which events that began as internal
political crises in Europe, the Middle East and the USA have sent
ripple effects reaching into all points of the globe. The
projection of liberal democratic predominance in the 1990s, has
faded as illiberal governance gains support worldwide.
Long-standing international trade patterns are disrupted, perhaps
permanently, by the weaponization of economic sanctions, real and
perceived threats of terrorism raise levels of anxiety everywhere,
and severe new weather patterns inflict floods, fires, drought and
hurricanes on populations unused to such extremes. This book
describes and analyses many of these phenomena in the hope that
better understanding of them may help ameliorate their
consequences.
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