Practical Lessons from US Foreign Policy

Chapter One: Introduction: How Did We Get Here?
Part I
Chapter Two: Global Challenges1. We're All Powerful and All Alone (1999)2. US Must Avoid Temptation to Shift Priorities Toward Asia (2001)3. Bush Should Seize His Chance to Recast US Ties with China (2001)4. US Needs Alliances, Not Short-Term Allies (2002)5. Thank the Friends: Doing America's Work at the UN (2002)6. A Nuclear Arms Race (2003)7. Bush's Corrosive Campaign of Fear (2003)8. The Nature of Freedom (2004)9. America's Strategic Surrender (2006)10. US Must Take Offensive Against Nuclear Terrorism (2007)11. The False Promise of 1989 (2009)12. Diplomacy 2.0 (2010)13. US Diplomats: A Vanishing Species? (2010)14. End of a Nuclear Era (2013)
Chapter Three: National Policies15. Back to Basics: US Foreign Policy for the Coming Decade (2000)16. Diplomatic Cathedral-Building (2002)17. Ike-Like Diplomacy Instead of War (2002)18. The Way to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons (2003)19. American Diplomacy - What You See is What You Get (2007)20. Mugged by Reality? (2008)21. Obama's World Tour: A Rising or a Setting Sun? (2010)22. The Strange Rebirth of American Leadership (2011)23. Pivots Forward, Backward, and Sideways (2012)24. Recipe for a Post-Hegemonic USA (2013)
Part II
Chapter Four: Regional Problems25. The Consequences of Russia's Actions - Who Will Cast the First Stone? (1999)26. Don't Rush to the Altar With India (2001)27. Afghanistan Stalemate Fosters Reevaluation of Stabilization Tactics (2001)28. Asia Needs a Common Defence (2001)29. The European Way: Asians Need a Regional Security Net (2002)30. East Asia: Connecting the Dots Isn't Optional (2002)31. Juggling a Two-Front Crisis (2003)32. Time for Jaw-Jaw with North Korea (2003)33. NATO Can't Be Globocop (2004)34. The US is Losing Ground on Korea Talks (2004)35. The Coming Showdown with Iran (2009)36. The Elusive Afghanistan Strategy (2009)37. Obama, "America's First Pacific President"? (2009)38. The Putin Doctrine and Preventive

James E. Goodby is Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, USA. He is a retired diplomat who was involved in the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in the negotiation of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, START, the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and cooperative threat reduction (the Nunn-Lugar program).
Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is a former defense analyst who has worked at the Atlantic Council of the United States, the European University Institute, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the United States Institute of Peace.