Product Description: Despite its status as the world's lone superpower, the United States confronts a variety of serious challenges in the world today: ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nuclear tensions involving Iran and North Korea, and strained American relations with allies in the European Union and the United Nations...read more

Product Description: A study of the shifting balance of power in the world today, and the domestic factors and varying perceptions of reality that influence policy decisions. The authors also reveal the disturbing continuation of the dangerous adversary games that nations play.

Product Description: This study illustrates the connection between foreign policy making and domestic politics. The text covers Congress, public opinion and interest groups, and emphazises the tensions inherent in democratic governance. It also considers the implications of the demise of the Soviet Union for democratic foreign policy formation and examines the impact of the 1992 Presidential and Congressional elections on foreign policy decision making...read more

Product Description: "The order not to bomb the Yalu bridges was the most indefensible and ill-conceived decision ever forced on a field commander in our nation's history....I will always believe that if the United States had issued a warning to the effect that any entry of the Chinese Communists in force into Korea would be considered an act of international war against the United States, that the Korean War would have been terminated with our advance north...read more