Publisher A Foreign Affairs Book

Release Date January 2004

321 pages
ISBN 0876093322

$16.95

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Contents

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

Overview

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.