Preparing America's Foreign Policy for the Twenty-first Century - Softcover

Boren, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080613271X ISBN 13: 9780806132716

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005

Synopsis

In 1997 and 1999 a very select group of analysts, practitioners, and scholars assembled at the University of Oklahoma to lay the groundwork for a new United States foreign policy that will promote our nation’s ideals while protecting its vital interests in the post-cold war era. This carefully edited collection includes major policy statements and round-table discussions by the best minds of our time as they devise criteria for the employment of military force, economic and trade priorities, a broad covert intelligence mission, and the protection of our planet’s ecology-all in the context of our pluralistic society and instantaneous global communication.

About this title

Synopsis

This volume is the by-product of the September 1997 Conference and also contains papers solicited subsequently from foreign policy authorities. Twenty-nine contributions lay the groundwork for a new foreign policy that will promote our nation's ideals while protecting its vital interests in the post-Cold War era. They devise criteria for the employ

About the Author

Edward J. Perkins, now retired as a U.S. Ambassador, is William J. Crowe Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Director of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080613271X
• ISBN 13: 9780806132716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448