From the Cold War to the War on Terror: 60 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978950011 ISBN 13: 9780978950019

Publisher: Columbia University, 2006

Synopsis

This timely anthology brings together landmark essays on US foreign policy and international affairs by some of the leading scholars and policymakers of the twentieth century. The essays, all originally published in the Journal of International Affairs, shed light on a wide range of topics including international relations theory, security and war, the United Nations, development, energy policy, nationalism, the Cold War and the present-day War on Terror. The articles included here are relevant for students and specialists alike, both as documents of their historical moment and as analysis that will remain valuable for years to come. Contributors include Condoleezza Rice, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul A. Volcker, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Paul D. Wolfowitz, Samuel Huntington, Hannah Arendt, Robert S. McNamara, Dag Hammarskjöld and many more.

About this title

About the Author:

J. Quinn Martin was the editor-in-chief of Passport Magazine in Moscow, Russia from 2003 to 2004 and is editor of the book "Taming the Wild East: New Russian Entrepreneurs Tell Their Stories." He holds a master's from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, a BA from Macalester College and certificates from Moscow State University and the American University in Cairo. Katherine R. Constabile is an Associate in the Africa Practice at Eurasia Group. She has also worked with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Mozambique, the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC, and UNESCO in New York. Constabile holds a BA from Columbia College, a master's from Columbia University s School of International and Public Affairs and has studied at Reed College, the University of Havana, and the Art Institute of Florence, Italy.

Review:

"Reading this marvelous collection is like joining an impassioned debate with the leading foreign policy thinkers and practitioners of recent decades. The editors have done a wonderful job of bringing together a vivid mix of essays. Some are period pieces which bring us back to the heated debates of bygone times; others are analyses of pressing current policy interest; and still others are timeless meditations bon the conceptual foundations of foreign policymaking. All reveal the complexities and life-and-death challenges of international affairs and the making of foreign policy. The essays by Columbia University scholars that introduce each thematic area are gems of analysis as well as brilliant and witty guides to the great debates of their respective fields." --Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University

A landmark collection of interviews and articles. Statesmen and scholars share their best ideas, some before and some after they made their mark. Altogether, a fitting and remarkable tribute to the generations of SIPA students and faculty who have shaped this influential journal on international affairs. --Michael W. Doyle, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0978950011
• ISBN 13: 9780978950019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 421
• Editor: Katherine R. Constabile, J. Quinn Martin