American Foreign Policy (War and Conflict in the Modern World) - Softcover

Viotti, Pro Paul R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745642411 ISBN 13: 9780745642413

Publisher: Polity, 2010

Synopsis

In this book, Paul Viotti explores American foreign policy from the founding of the republic in the late 18th Century to the present day. He concludes that even though containment and armed intervention will remain part of the way the United States conducts its foreign policy, diplomatic engagement options are the most promising course of action for the coming decades.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

"A valuable study that can be highly recommended."
Australian Journal of Political Science

"Viotti′s book is very intelligently constructed and can be read with profit by any student of US foreign policy."
International Affairs

"Paul Viotti, who has served as both a career military officer and professor, has written an excellent introduction to American foreign policy that is both theoretically and historically grounded. It will be of great value to students and professors alike."
Dan Caldwell, Pepperdine University

"Professor Viotti has done a masterful job of analyzing the factors that go into the making and implementing of American foreign policy. After reviewing the kinds of foreign policy options available to policy makers, he shows how these options have been applied by various US administrations in the last 200 years. He also identifies particular themes that have helped determine American foreign policy and concludes with reflections on the role of presidential power. Overall, a brilliant summary of what happened and why in American foreign policy since the earliest days of the republic."
Ambassador George M. Lane, U.S. Foreign Service (retired)

"With its focus on the policymaker, Paul Viotti′s new book is both engaging and distinctive; this approach gives students a sense of the range of policy options to consider in particular cases and it allows those familiar with IR theory to make connections between those theories and policymaking."
Daniel G Lang, Lynchburg College

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745642411
• ISBN 13: 9780745642413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272