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Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,650 ratings — published 1994
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,400 ratings — published 2014
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,683 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,485 ratings — published 2004
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,904 ratings — published 2001
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 122,602 ratings — published 2015
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,444 ratings — published 2011
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,658 ratings — published 2018
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,824 ratings — published 2006
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,354 ratings — published 1971
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,315 ratings — published 1996
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,886 ratings — published 2019
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,579 ratings — published 2000
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,138 ratings — published 1954
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,978 ratings — published 2007
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,264 ratings — published 2017
The Best and the Brightest (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,019 ratings — published 1969
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,997 ratings — published 2012
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,129 ratings — published 2002
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,161 ratings — published 2003
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,897 ratings — published 2008
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,583 ratings — published 2017
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,191 ratings — published 2019
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,573 ratings — published 1997
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.45 — 24,706 ratings — published 2019
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,138 ratings — published 2014
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,175 ratings — published 2012
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,255 ratings — published 2016
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,120 ratings — published 1967
Special Providence (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 585 ratings — published 2001
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,267 ratings — published 2005
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,395 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,603 ratings — published 1987
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,773 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,690 ratings — published 2005
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,058 ratings — published 2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,850 ratings — published 2006
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,185 ratings — published 1986
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 45,328 ratings — published 2022
The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 739 ratings — published 2018
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,701 ratings — published 2014
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 224,658 ratings — published 2011
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,946 ratings — published
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,341 ratings — published 2008
American Diplomacy (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 716 ratings — published 1951
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,869 ratings — published 2003
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,012 ratings — published 2014
George F. Kennan: An American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,691 ratings — published 2011
Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 417 ratings — published 1976
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,740 ratings — published 2013
“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: 'I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy'. I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.'
Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month and asked, 'Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?' Ledeen replied: 'Yesterday.' There is obvious, substantial risk in falsely claiming that one opposed the Iraq War notwithstanding a public record of support. But that war has come to be viewed as such a profound failure that that risk, at least in the eyes of some, is outweighed by the prospect of being associated with Bush's invasion.”
― A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month and asked, 'Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?' Ledeen replied: 'Yesterday.' There is obvious, substantial risk in falsely claiming that one opposed the Iraq War notwithstanding a public record of support. But that war has come to be viewed as such a profound failure that that risk, at least in the eyes of some, is outweighed by the prospect of being associated with Bush's invasion.”
― A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon doctrine, Israel and Iran were to be 'the guardians of the Gulf,' and after the fall of the Shah, Israel's perceived role was enhanced. Meanwhile, Israel has provided subsidiary services elsewhere, including Latin America, where direct US support for the most murderous regimes has been impeded by Congress. While there has been internal debate and some fluctuation in US policy, much exaggerated in discussion here, it has been generally true that US support for Israel's militarization and expansion reflected the estimate of its power in the region.
The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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