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Terrorist attacks, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of China, and the decline of Europe have underscored the necessity of understanding the world around us. But how should we approach this crucial but often misunderstood topic? What do we need to know about the international order and America's role in it?A Student's Guide to International Relations provides a vital introduction to the geography, culture, and politics that make up the global environment. Angelo Codevilla, who has taught international relations at some of America's most prestigious universities, explains the history of the international system, the dominant schools of American statecraft, the instruments of power, contemporary geopolitics, and more. The content of international relations, he demonstrates, flows from the differences between our global village's peculiar neighborhoods.This witty and wise book helps make sense of a complex world.

Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts. The author reestablishes early American statecraft's understanding of peace-what it takes to make it and what it takes to keep it. He reminds Americans why our founding generation placed the pursuit of peace ahead of all.

The widespread assumption that peoples of many nations are growing ever more like twenty-first-century Euro-Americans, that these are identical with Western civilization, and that something like Western civilization is mankind's future may well be the biggest barrier to understanding our world. In fact, the most important question of all, whether the West can remain the West, is as uncertain as how other civilizations may develop. Confidence in universal, permanent Westernization is supported by appearances. Anyone traveling across the continents notices diminishing differences in how disparate peoples dress and in the technology they use in daily life. Here, Codevilla determines whether and to what extent the West itself may retain the qualities and that heritage. Adapted from the source document.

Critical of George W. Bush administration war on terrorism, arguing that its policy priority was to change as little as possible visions, objectives, assumptions, and modus operandi of late-twentieth century American elites, and wasted US power on its least significant enemies. Pursuit of Al Qaeda Islamist terrorist organization following Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US as if it were unconnected to Islamic countries, support of "friendly" Arab regimes and restraint of Israel, and deference to Saudi Arabia.