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"Rarely have more profound changes in American foreign policy been called for than today," begins Amitai Etzioni in the preface to this book. Yet Etzioni's concern is not to lay blame for past mistakes but to address the future: What can now be done to improve U.S. relations with the rest of the world? What should American policies be toward recently liberated countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, or rogue states like North Korea and Iran? When...

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a "Declaration by United Nations" with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form. Yet today many people have forgotten that the UN was forged in the midst of the confusion and complexity of wartime. How did the armies of the United Nations co-operate in the final years of World War II to contain and ultimately reverse Nazi expansionism? And when and for what purpose...

Provides the story of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalists.

This book focuses on American political and socioeconomical history in the context of globalization and includes detailed accounts of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, as well as the election of Barack Obama. The book also examines the the growing fragmenting of American society and the increasing distance between rich and poor as a result of public policies and global forces.

Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at home is a tension as current as the war in Afghanistan and as old as America itself. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W.E.B....