Rising Threats, Enduring Challenges: Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy - Softcover

Price-Smith, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199897638 ISBN 13: 9780199897636

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Bringing together the best articles in the field, Rising Threats, Enduring Challenges: Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy is a uniquely wide-ranging anthology that helps students learn how to analyze and critique complex foreign policy issues. Part One: Historical Perspectives provides a selection of pivotal historical readings, while the articles in Part Two: Theory and Grand Strategy illustrate key theories including realism, liberalism, bureaucratic politics, and political psychology. Part Three: Institutions and Processes includes debates on the influence of public opinion, interest groups, the media, labor, and business on U.S. foreign policy. Part Four: The U.S. and the World offers a special focus on bilateral relations between the U.S. and key countries--including Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, and Russia--and Part Five: New Domains looks at rising threats and challenges including cyber-attacks, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, energy scarcity, climate change, the Arab Spring, and imperial overstretch.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Price-Smith is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Energy, Environment, and Security Project at Colorado College. He also served as Associate Advisor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2008 to 2013. Dr. Price-Smith is the author of Contagion and Chaos (2008) and The Health of Nations (2001), and numerous other books and articles.

Review:

"Rising Threats, Enduring Challenges is a fantastic piece of work that definitely has a place in the field of American Foreign Policy and International Relations."--Leo J. Weeks, University of West Florida

"This is a thorough introduction to the study of American foreign policy that provides students with the analytical tools to understand current issues and debates in the field."--Joel. H. Westra, Calvin College

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199897638
• ISBN 13: 9780199897636
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432