EAGLE RULES? FOREIGN POLICY AND AMERICAN PRIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYPDF电子书下载

Chapter 1: Foreign Policy and American Primacy 1

Three Propositions about America's World Role 3

Reversible Assumptions? 12

Implications for Foreign Policy 14

Part I: The Eagle at Home 16

Chapter 2: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy 16

Internationalism or Isolationism 18

Threats to Vital U.S. Interests 20

Foreign Policy Goals 22

Globalization, Trade, and Protectionism 25

Foreign Economic Assistance 28

Deployment of U.S. Troops Abroad 29

Partisanship: Persistence or Abatement? 34

Conclusion 40

Election Postscript 44

Chapter 3: Who Rules the Roost? Congressional-Executive Relations on Foreign Policy After the Cold War 47

Introduction 47

Presidential versus Congressional Perspectives on Foreign Policy 50

Historical and Post-Cold War Influences on Foreign Policy Roles 52

The Post-Cold War Interbranch Balance on Foreign Policy 56

Interbranch Relations on Trade and Finance 57

Foreign Policy Appointments and the Senate Confirmation Process 58

War Powers 61

The Treaty Ratification Process 65

Conclusions 67

Part II: Regional Relations 70

Chapter 4: The United States and Europe: From Primacy to Partnership? 70

The Indispensable Power 72

Growing Resentment of American Power 81

Europe's Capacity for Partnership 89

Europe's Outlook for Partnership 92

Sharing Power and Responsibility for Decisions 93

Towards Strategic Partnership 95

Chapter 5: Transforming Russia: American Policy in the 1990s 97

The Promise and the Critique 97

The Policy Framework 102

American Policy and Russia's Evolution in the 1990s 109

Conclusion: The Limits of Influence 129

Chapter 6: The United States and the Americas; Unfilled Promise at the Century's Turn 133

The Bush-Clinton Agenda 135

The Summit and Other Pieces of the Hemispheric Agenda 138

A Divided U.S. Government 140

The Postwar Political Template and the Clinton Paradox 148

Chapter 7: A Cautionary Tale: The U.S. and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 152

Global Conflict to Regional Disturbance 154

Madrid: Ratifying U.S. Supremacy 156

The Parties Act, and the U.S. Rejoices 157

Limits of Influence 158

Trouble in the Gulf 160

Salvaging the Peace 161

Crisis of the End Game 162

Camp David II: The Three-Bluff Summit 164

Jerusalem Redux 166

Fingers in the Dike: From Paris to Sharm 167

Clinton's Last Hurrah-and Barak's 169

A Clarifying Act of Violence 169

The Limits of Influence 170

Chapter 8: Iraq and Iran: From Dual to Differentiated Containment 173

Historical Background 175

Dual Containment of Two "Rogue States" 176

Iraq: Containment or Rollback? 180

Iran: A Revolutionary or an Ordinary State? 184

Implementing "Differentiated Containment": Prospects and Dilemmas 188

Chapter 9: Lone Eagle, Lone Dragon? How the Cold War Did Not End for China 194

Human Rights 195

Economics 199

National Security 205

Taiwan 207

Conclusion 210

Chapter 10: The Untied States and Africa: Power with Limited Influence 214

American National Interests in Africa 216

Conclusion 238

Part III: Security Issues 241

Chapter 11: Defense Policy for the Twenty-First Century 241

America's Strategic Choices 242

The U.S. Margin of Military Superiority Is Vast 244

Military Primacy and Effective Influence 246

Pressures on the Defense Budget 248

Setting New Military Priorities 251

Recalibrating the MTW Measuring Stick 254

Finding Nonmilitary Solutions for the New Century 260

Conventional Force Structure for the New Century 261

Summary 264

Chapter 12: Use of Force Dilemmas: Policy and Politics 266

The National Interest Debate Redux 268

Policy Challenge: Ethnic Conflict Deterrence and Humanitarian Intervention Strategies 269

U.S. Domestic Political Constraints: How Fixed, How Flexible? 276

Conclusion: Difficult, but Doable 280

Chapter 13: Weapons Proliferation and Missile Defense: New Patterns, Tough Choices 282

A Brief Historical Review 284

Further Challenges at the Century's End 289

Tough Policy Choices Ahead 291

Initial Perspectives on the Bush Administration 297

Part IV: Globalization and Its Discontents 299

Chapter 14: Containing Backlash: Foreign Economic Policy in an Age of Globalization 299

Is Globalization Irreversible? 301

Will U.S. Primacy Endure? 305

Can U.S. Policy-makers Be Counted On? 307

International Trade 309

International Finance 317

Conclusion 321

Chapter 15: The Eagle and the Global Environment: The Burden of Being Essential 324

A Model for Success: The 1987 Montreal Protocol 325

A Model for Paralysis: The Stillborn Kyoto Climate Change Agreement 327

Biodiversity Protection Policy: Failing to Ratify the CBD 333

The Price of Disengagement: National Interests Compromised in the 2000 Biosafety Protocol 337

Conclusion 340

Chapter 16: The United States and International Organizations 342

The Uses of Multilateralism 343

The Clinton Years 347

The Causes of U.S. Behavior 349

Index 353