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"American Foreign Policy helps students develop the critical thinking skills needed to participate in current debates about foreign policy. The thirteenth edition, updated to include recent events such as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, emerges at a critical time of rising political tensions at home and abroad"--

The White House, "America first foreign policy, and Barack Obama : remarks by the President on winning the Nobel Peace Prize -- Allure of normalcy : what America still owes the world / Robert Kagan -- A better internationalism / David C. Unger -- Pull back : the case for a less activist foreign policy / Barry R. Possen -- Worldwide threat assessment / excerpts from the U.S. Intelligence Community -- Growing together : economic ties between the United States and Mexico / Christopher Wilson -- A framework for U.S. policy toward China / Jeffrey Bader -- NATO's strategic adaptation : the Warsaw Summit and beyond / Bastian Giegerich -- ISIS and the third wave of jihadism / Fawaz A. Gerges -- The outlook for energy policy under a Trump administration / David Goldwyn -- America's history of protectionism / Robert Merry -- Assessing Russian activities and intentions in recent US elections / excerpts from Office of National Intelligence Director -- Millennials and U.S. foreign policy / A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner -- The courage crisis / David J. Danelo -- Understanding authorizations for the use of military force / Ken Gude -- Reforming the NSA : how to spy after Snowden / Daniel L. Byman and Benjamin Wittes -- The Trump foreign policy transition / Glenn Hastedt -- The Army for the future / excerpts from the National Commission on the Future of the Army -- Moving targets : the evolution and future of smart sanctions / Laura Kanji -- R2P : looking back, looking forward / Gareth Evans -- A tale of two trade deals / Clyde Prestowitz -- Cybersecurity and tailored deterrence / Franklin D. Kramer and Melanie J. Teplinsky -- The human element : when gadgetry becomes strategy / H.R. McMaster -- Global trends 2030 : alternative worlds / excerpt from the National Intelligence Council -- More small wars : counterinsurgency is here to wtay / Max Boot -- A critical decade for climate policy : tools and initiatives to track our progress / Taryn Fransen and Casey Cronin -- Is the U.S. drone war effective? / Michael J. Boyle -- From scarcity to abundance : the new geopolitics of energy / Michael T. Klare

This text helps students understand the context of headline events in the international arena. Organized into three main parts - military, economic, and human security - the book's fifteen cases examine enduring and emerging issues from the longstanding Arab-Israeli conflict to the rapidly changing field of cyber-security. Compatible with a variety of theoretical perspectives, the cases consider a dispute's origins, issue development, and resolution so that readers see the underlying dynamics of state behavior and can try their hand at applying theory.

The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly understood. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject

The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly understood. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject.

From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, spies and spying have been a central component of the nation's efforts to confront its enemies and protect its citizens. Recent controversies, from revelations of rogue agents in the 1990s to incomplete pre- and post-9/11 intelligence, only emphasize how important it is to understand the role of espionage in our national defense

Covers all facets of espionage in the American historical experience, focusing on key individuals and technologies.

Examines the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in terms of value added to the decisionmaking process as compared to open source intelligence (OSINT). At issue is offering a survey of academic commentary on Chinese foreign policy, comparing the Special National Intelligence Estimates (SNIEs) produced on the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis to reports from the New York Times. The incident is reviewed before comparing the NIE & crisis SNIE intelligence with the press reports, breaking events out into a precrisis phase & four stages of development that run through the postcrisis phase, 1958/59. Differences between the NIE & OSINT are seen in the analysis of underlying factors & the character of the Sino-Soviet relationship. Further, presentation of information is another point of comparison that speaks to the issue of analysis transparency & the degree of (un)certainty underlying the analysis. It is contended that the NIE's value added lies in the likelihood that an expression of uncertainty will travel with a judgment taken out of context; however, NIE readers are unable to process intellectually, thus policy may simply reflect policymaker biases more than processed intelligence. Tables. Adapted from the source document.