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Contemporary cases in U.S. foreign policy from terrorism to trade

Fully updated to cover the Obama administration, all cases have been revised to reflect recent developments. Whether grappling with use-of-force questions, the international financial crisis, legal and human rights, trade issues, multilateral approaches to the nuclear programs of North Korea and Ira...

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Other Authors: Carter, Ralph G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE 2014
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 1989- > Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. INTERVENTION POLICY
  • 1. The United States versus Terrorism: From the Embassy Bombings in Tanzania and Kenya to the Surge in Afghanistan / Frederick Gagnon and Ryan C. Hendrickson
  • 2. Assassinating bin Laden: Right or Wrong? / Priya Dixit
  • 3. Executive Decisions and Preventive War: Strategies of Intervention and Withdrawal in Iraq (2003-2011) / Jeffrey S. Lantis and Eric Moskowitz
  • Part II. NUCLEAR SECURITY POLICY
  • 4. The Nuclear Standoff between the United States and Iran: Muscular Diplomacy and the Ticking Clock / Thomas Preston
  • 5. The United States and North Korea: Avoiding a Worst-Case Scenario / Patrick James and Ozgur Ozdamar
  • 6. Nonproliferation Policy Crossroads: The U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement / Gerald Felix Warburg
  • PART III. DIPLOMATIC POLICY
  • 7. Hitting the Reset Button: Why Is Cooperation So Hard? / Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott
  • 8. Friendly Tyrants? The Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution / Stephen Zunes
  • 9. Chen Guangcheng: The Case of the Blind Dissident and U.S.-China Relations / Joyce P. Kaufman
  • PART IV. ECONOMIC AND TRADE POLICY
  • 10. The Global Financial Crisis: Governments, Banks and Markets / Thomas Lairson
  • 11. Sino-American Trade Relations: Privatizing Foreign Policy / Steven W. Hook and Franklin Barr Lebo
  • 12. The Politics of Climate Change: Will the U.S. Act to Prevent Calamity? / Rodger A. Payne and Sean Payne
  • PART V. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL POLICY
  • 13. National Security Surveillance: Unchecked or Limited Presidential Power? / Louis Fisher
  • 14. The Rights of Detainees: Determining the Limits of Law / Linda Cornett and Mark Gibney
  • 15. The International Criminal Court: National Interests versus International Norms / Donald W. Jackson and Ralph G. Carter

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