The central goal of this reader is to develop the capacity for critical thinking about key issues in foreign policy and to turn students into social scientists who can understand and critique complex phenomena. Use of this reader will save time for instructors who may not want to spend weeks
researching the best new articles in each subject domain. It consists of five parts: Part One: Historical Perspectives and Part Two: Theory and Grand Strategy sets the tone of the reader, wherein students are exposed to basic tenets of U.S. diplomatic history, and international relations theory;
Part Three: Institutions and Processes examines the role of institutions and processes, largely at the domestic level of analysis, in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy; Part Four: The U.S. and the World provides a collection of essays on U.S. foreign relations with key states and regions in the
21st century; and Part Five: New Domains examines salient new domains in U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century.
The reader will compliment existing U.S. foreign policy texts. The majority of the chapters are from published articles (e.g. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, etc.),
although several chapters were commissioned directly for this volume.
PART ONE. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
George Washington: Farewell Address, 19 October 1796
James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine, Address to Congress, 2 December, 1823
Theodore Roosevelt: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Annual Message Before Congress, 6 December 1904
Woodrow
Wilson: Fourteen Points Speech, Address to Congress, 8 January 1918
"X" (George F. Kennan): The Sources of Soviet Conduct
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fireside Chat 19: On the War with Japan, 9 December, 1941
Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine, Address to Congress, 1947
Dwight D.
Eisenhower: Farewell Address 17 January, 1961
Jimmy Carter: The Carter Doctrine, from "State of the Union Address," 23 January 1980
Ronald Reagan: Speech at Brandenburg Gate, 12 June 1987
George W. Bush: Graduation Speech at West Point, 1 June, 2002
Barack H. Obama: A Responsibility
to Act, 28 March, 2011
PART TWO. THEORY AND GRAND STRATEGY
Jack Snyder: One World, Rival Theories
Henry R. Nau: Why We Fight Over Foreign Policy
Charles Krauthammer: The Unipolar Moment Revisited
Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow: Explaining the Cuban Missile
Crisis
Robert Jervis: Hypotheses on Misperception
Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations?
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: Public Diplomacy and Soft Power
Richard N. Haass: The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance
John J. Mearsheimer: Imperial by Design
PART
THREE. INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Benjamin I. Page: Who Influences US Foreign Policy?
Patrick J. Haney: Foreign-Policy Advising: Models and Mysteries from the Bush Administration
Matthew A. Baum and Philip B.K. Potter: The Relationships between Mass Media,
Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Andrew Bacevich: Twilight of the Republic
Loch K. Johnson: A Framework for Strengthening US Intelligence
PART FOUR. THE U.S. AND THE
WORLD
Robert A. Pastor: The Future of North America: Replacing a Bad Neighbor Policy
Jorge G. Castaneda: Morning in Latin America
G. John Ikenberry: The Rise of China and the Future of the West; Can the Liberal System Survive?
Evan A. Feigenbaum: India's Rise, America's Interest:
The Fate of the U.S.-Indian Partnership
Robert Legvold: The Russia File: How to Move Toward a Strategic Partnership
Mohsen M. Milani: Tehran's Take: Understanding Iran's U.S. Policy
Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid: From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and
Pakistan
PART FIVE. NEW DOMAINS
Roger C. Altman: Globalization in Retreat
A.G. Hopkins: Capitalism, Nationalism, and the New American Empire
David G. Victor and Linda Yueh: The New Energy Order: Managing Insecurities in the Twenty-first Century
Steven E. Miller and Scott
D. Sagan: Alternative Nuclear Futures
Scott G. Borgerson: Arctic Meltdown: The Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming
Ronald J. Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski: Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Blyth: The Black Swan
of Cairo: How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous
William McCants: Al Qaeda's Challenge: The Jihadists' War with Islamist Democrats
Robert A. Pape: Empire Falls
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Andrew T. Price-Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Energy, Environment and Security Project, and Director of North American Studies, at The Colorado College. Andrew served as Associate Advisor to the US National Intelligence Council (2008-2012). He has held
previous appointments at both the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, and the University of South Florida. He was the founding Director of the Program on Health and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He earned his PhD in Political
Science from the University of Toronto in 1999, and did his post-doctoral work at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous articles and books including The Health of Nations (MIT Press, 2002) short-listed for the Grawemeyer Award, and Contagion and Chaos (MIT Press, 2009) that won a Choice
magazine award for 'Outstanding Academic Title of 2009.' He is currently completing a third book entitled Empire of Oil: Energy, Environment and International Security, MIT Press (forthcoming). Andrew has lectured at the University of Oxford (All Souls and Linacre Colleges), Columbia University, the
University of Toronto, Dartmouth College, UCLA, the University of Texas, the University of Denver, the University of Waterloo, the Finnish Institute for International Affairs, and the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.
