http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2010/03/11#foreign-policy <P>See also: <a href="cold-war.html">the Cold War</a>; <a href="empires.html">Empires and Imperialism</a>; <a href="globalization.html">Globalization</a>; <a href="terrorism.html">Terrorism</a>; <a href="war.html">War</a> <ul>Recommended (very, very, very misc.): <li>Stephen S. Cohen and <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/">J. Bradford DeLong</a>, <cite>The End of Infleunce: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money</cite> <li>Rashid Khalidi, <cite>Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Andrew J. Bacevich, <cite>American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy</cite> <li>Lea Brilmayer, <cite>American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World</cite> <li>Alexander Cooley, <cite>Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas</cite> [<a href="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4813">Blurb</a>] <li>Colin Dueck, <cite>Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8199.html">Blurb, intro</a>] <li>P. Edward Haley, <cite>Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9139.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, <cite>America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order</cite> <li>Stanley Hoffmann, <cite>Gulliver Unbound: The Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq</cite> <li>G. John Ikenberry, <cite>Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order</cite> <li>John Krige, <cite>American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-11297-3">Blurb</a>] <li>Alexander T. J. Lennon (ed.), <cite>What Does the World Want from America? International Perspectives on U. S. Foreign Policy</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262621673">Blurb</a>] <li>James Lindsay and Ivo Daalder, <cite>America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy</cite> <li>Michael C. Mann, <cite>Incoherent Empire</cite> <li>Joseph S. Nye, Jr. <ul> <li><cite>Bound to Lead</cite> <li><cite>The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone</cite> </ul> <li>William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric, <cite>America's Inadvertant Empire</cite> <li>Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton, <cite>The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get</cite> "[Drawing on a series of national surveys conducted between 1974 and 2004, Page and Bouton reveal that&mdash;contrary to conventional wisdom&mdash;Americans generally hold durable, coherent, and sensible opinions about foreign policy. Nonetheless, their opinions often stand in opposition to those of policymakers, usually because of different interests and values, rather than superior wisdom among the elite." <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/198139.ctl">Full blurb</a>] <li>Dana Priest, <cite>The Mission</cite> <li>Christian Reus-Smit, <cite>American Power and World Order</cite> <li>David F. Schmitz, <cite>Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921--1965</cite> <li>Peter Trubowitz, <cite>Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13290.ctl">Blurb</a>. This would seem to seriously address what seems to me the obvious problem with the "realist" theory of international relations (and many similar doctrines): <em>people</em> are often open to persuasion about what their interests are, never mind large organizations like states...] </ul>