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Title: Does America Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0-684-85568-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kissinger's Best
Comment: This is a remarkable book from one of the most effective men ever to serve as Secretary of State and one of the wisest current observers of the world scene. Kissinger understands that foreign policy has to be rooted in reality and must be consistently maintained if it is to be effective. He is alert to the pressures which have been weakening the Atlantic Alliance, the need to accommodate European legitimate interests, the importance of Japan to America's future and the unique blend of idealism and realism which makes American foreign policy so complicated and makes our country so difficult for others to understand.
This is one of Kissinger's best books. It is clear, written for the informed citizen who is not a specialist in foreign policy, and covers virtually every major issue facing America. This is a book the Bush Administration can use for sophisticated planning and the interested citizen can use to better understand the context in which the daily news is made.
Rating: 5
Summary: New Challenges in a Time of Preeminence
Comment: At the dawning of the new millennium, the United States faces a paradox. It finds itself basking in a success unrivaled by history's greatest empires. In popular culture, finance, weaponry, science, technology and education, the country dominates the worldview. The country considers itself both the source and the guarantor of global democratic institutions.
Yet, Kissinger argues, the United States finds itself at a juncture with irrelevance to many of the issues affecting and changing the world order. Interest in foreign affairs, he notes judging from media coverage and congressional sentiment, is at an all time low. As a result the United States finds itself facing some of the most profound and widespread upheavals the world has ever witnessed, yet unwilling and uninterested in developing concepts relevant to the foreign policy reality.
Our relations with Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East require subtle responses rendering the traditional American quest for an all-purpose, magic foreign relations formula irrelevant. Unfortunately, the former Secretary of State argues, three forces in domestic politics drives American foreign policy in the opposite direction.
First, Congress legislates the tactics of foreign policy and seeks to impose a code of conduct on other nations by sanction. These legislative actions drive American foreign policy towards a unilateral and, what Kissinger describes as, occasionally bullying conduct.
Second, coverage of these events by a ratings-driven media does not help. Their obsession with the crisis of the moment rarely fosters discussion of the long-range historical challenges. They prefer to portray today's crisis as a morality play with a specific outcome and then move on to the next new sensation. Even though the underlying trends continue, growing in their unmanageability on a daily basis, they receive little attention.
Finally, the deepest reason for America's failure to develop a coherent strategy is the presence of three different generations, each with its own approach to foreign relations dominate the foreign policy debate - the Cold Warriors, Vietnam Protestors and Generation X, whose experience makes it hard for them to understand the perceptions of the previous two.
The inability of these three groups to articulate an unapologetic statement of enlightened self-interest results in what Kissinger refers to as "Progressive Paralysis." Certainly the country must fashion a foreign policy consistent with its democratic heritage and concerned with the democracy's world wide vitality, he writes, but it must also translate these values into answers to difficult questions: What, for our survival, must we seek to prevent no matter how painful the means? What wrongs is it essential to right? What goals are simply beyond our capacity?
Rating: 5
Summary: Great overview of Foreign Policy
Comment: Kissinger provides a great analysis of US F. Policy, as well as in what direction it should be taken. I wish my International Relations teacher used this in class! He goes over the important events of 20th century analyzing (from a realist perspective) them. He gives an image of where American policy should be taken, as well as a historical overview of the major theoretical approaches in IR. Even if you don't agree with his positions, the book is packed with substantive accounts. I def. recommend this book no any1 interested in foreign police or 20th century history. .
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Title: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0671510991 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ISBN: 0195150880 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: YEARS OF RENEWAL by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0684855720 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 22 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer ISBN: 039332396X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan ISBN: 1400040930 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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