Readings in American Foreign Policy

Book excerpt: Part I Foundations of American Foreign Policy "The Isolationist Heritage" Cecil Crabb "The Mainsprings of American Foreign Policy" Hans Morgenthau "America's Liberal Grand Strategy" John Ikenberry "The New Great Debate - Washington Versus Wilson" Joshua Muravchik "America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism" Harold Hongju Koh "The Dilemmas of Dominance" Noam Chomsky Part II Making Foreign Policy: Individuals, Institutions, Politics Louis Fisher, "Presidential Wars" "Deference and Defiance: The Shifting Rhythms of Executive-Legislative Relations in Foreign Policy" James Lindsay "Beyond the Pale: The Bureaucratic Politics of United States Policy in Mexico" Howard Wiarda "The CNN Effect" Warren Strobel "Three Historical Stages of Ethnic Group Influence" Tony Smith "Public Opinion as Intervention Constraint" Richard Sobel Part III An Emerging Power at the Turn of the Century: Creating a Global American Foreign Policy "The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" Theodore Roosevelt "In Support of an American Empire" Albert Beveridge War Message to Congress Woodrow Wilson "Cowboy Nation" Robert Kagan "Epilogue" Walter LaFeber "Changing the Paradigms" Walter Russell Mead Part IV The Cold War: The Foreign Policy of a Superpower "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" George Kennan "The Content of International Economic Policy" Stephen Cohen "The Cuban Missile Crisis" Richard Crockett "Misadventure Revisited" Richard Betts Commencement Address at the University of Notre Dame Jimmy Carter "Dictatorships and Double Standards" Jeanne Kirkpatrick Address to the British Parliament Ronald Reagan "Japanese Subsidization of American Hegemony" Robert Gilpin "Retrospect and Prospect" Raymond Garthoff "The Long Peace" John Lewis Gaddis Part V After the Cold War: A New World Order "The Unipolar Moment" Charles Krauthammer "An Ambiguous Victory" Ronald Steel The White House, A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement "Democratic Enlargement: The Clinton Doctrine" Douglas Brinkley "Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy" Graham Allison and Owen Cote Jr. "Nation Building: The Inescapable Responsibility of the World's Only Superpower" James Dobbins "Sharm El-Sheik Fact Finding Committee Report" George Mitchell et al. "Remarks at a Democratic Leadership Council Gala" William Jefferson Clinton "The Lonely Superpower" Samuel Huntington.