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| Editors: | Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs James F. Hoge Jr., Editor, Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs |
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January 2004
321 pages
ISBN 0876093322
$16.95
Pundits often treat foreign policy decision making as a simple matter of morality or politics, and academics often ignore it entirely, viewing policy as driven not by individual officials but by broad structural forces. Foreign policy professionals, in contrast, generally see the subject as an arena of constrained choice. They try to figure out just how much freedom of action they actually have in a particular situation, and debate how best to use that freedom to advance the national interest. The hallmark of the serious professional’s approach to foreign policy is not certainty but doubt; they live in a world with no easy answers, only an endless series of unpleasant tradeoffs. This collection is an introduction to that world. Originally published in Foreign Affairs, the essays gathered here offer a broad array of opinions on pressing topics ranging from handling rogue states to humanitarian intervention, from designing trade policy to dealing with the UN to managing relations with China.
Introduction by Gideon Rose
Part One: How Should the United States Deal with a Rising Power?
The Coming Conflict with America
Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro, Foreign Affairs, March/April 1997
Beijing as a Conservative Power
Robert Ross, Foreign Affairs, March/April 1997
Does China Matter?
Gerald Segal, Foreign Affairs, September/October 1999
China's Governance Crisis
Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2002
Part Two: When Should the United States Intervene?
A Perfect Failure: Nato's War Against Yugoslavia
Michael Mandelbaum, Foreign Affairs, September/October 1999
A Perfect Polemic: Blind to Reality on Kosovo
James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999
Rwanda in Retrospect
Alan J. Kuperman, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2000
Shame: Rationalizing Western Apathy on Rwanda
Alison L. Des Forges and Alan J. Kuperman, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2000
Part Three: Do Sanctions Work?
Sanctioning Madness
Richard N. Haass, Foreign Affairs, November/December 1997
What Sanctions Epidemic?
Jesse Helms, Foreign Affairs, January/February 1999
Part Four: Is Trade Policy on Track?
A Renaissance for U.S. Trade Policy?
C. Fred Bergsten, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002
A High-Risk Trade Policy
Bernard K. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
Part Five: How Should the United States Handle Rogues?
Iraq and the Arabs' Future
Fouad Ajami, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003
Suicide from Fear of Death?
Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003
Securing the Gulf
Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
Korea's Place in the Axis
Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002
How to Deal With Korea
James Laney and Jason Shaplen, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2003
The Rogue Who Came in from the Cold
Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001
Part Six: What Role Should the United Nations Play?
Why the Security Council Failed
Michael J. Glennon, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003
Stayin' Alive: The Rumors of the UN's Death Have Been Exaggerated
Edward C. Luck, Anne-Marie Slaughter & Ian Hurd, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
Part Seven: Partnership or Hegemony?
Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy
William Kristol and Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1996
U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
Striking a New Transatlantic Bargain
Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
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