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Paradoxes of Power
U.S. Foreign Policy in a
Changing World
Edited by David Skidmore
This book provides a lively
and readable introduction
to current debates over
U.S. power and purpose
in world affairs. These
debates involve two
crucial questions: Should
U.S. foreign policy focus
on securing vital interests
that are narrowly defined,
or should the United
States seek to spread
U.S. institutions and values to other societies?
Should the United States exercise maximum
independence in the exercise of U.S. power abroad
or work principally through multilateral institutions?
This book brings together many different voices
to answer these questions and to add to our
understanding of the issues.
Contributors:
Andrew J. Bacevich; Max Boot; Stephen G. Brooks;
Ralph G. Carter; Robert F. Ellsworth; Niall Ferguson;
Francis Fukuyama; Philip H. Gordon; Christopher Hitchens;
James F. Hoge Jr.; Michael Ignatieff; G. John Ikenberry;
John B. Judis; Robert Kagan; Charles Krauthammer;
Christopher Layne; Michael Mandelbaum; Joseph S. Nye Jr.;
Minxin Pei; PEW Center for the People and the Press;
Jeffrey Record; Paul W. Schroeder; Todd S. Sechser;
Dimitri K. Simes; Stephen M. Walt; The White House; and
William C. Wohlforth
2007, 288 pages, 6x9”
1-5945-1403-8 / 978-1-59451-403-6
paper $47.95 CRO
Perilous Power
The Middle East and U.S. Foreign
Policy: Dialogues on Terror,
Democracy, War, and Justice
Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
The volatile Middle East is
the site of vast resources,
profound passions,
frequent crises, and
long-standing conflicts, as
well as a major source of
international tensions and
a key site of direct U.S.
intervention.
Two of the most astute
analysts of this part of the
world are Noam Chomsky,
the preeminent critic of U.S. foreign policy, and
Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist of the Middle East
who lived in that region for many years. In their first
book together, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen
understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle
East and of the role of the United States, taking up all
the key questions of interest to concerned citizens;
including such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism,
conspiracies, oil, democracy, self-determination,
anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab racism, as well as the
war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of
Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the sources
of U.S. foreign policy.
In Perilous Power, Chomsky and Achcar offer an
engaging and readable introduction for all who wish
to understand the complex issues related to the
Middle East from a perspective dedicated to peace
and justice.
2006, 224 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-312-0 / 978-1-59451-312-1
cloth $29.95 CRO
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