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Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,457 ratings — published 1994
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,066 ratings — published 2014
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,352 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 35 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,951 ratings — published 2004
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,774 ratings — published 2001
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,241 ratings — published 2011
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,841 ratings — published 2015
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,676 ratings — published 2006
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,324 ratings — published 1971
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,593 ratings — published 2018
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,099 ratings — published 1996
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,369 ratings — published 2007
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,558 ratings — published 2000
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,349 ratings — published 2017
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,050 ratings — published 2002
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,104 ratings — published 2003
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,251 ratings — published 2017
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,109 ratings — published 1954
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,951 ratings — published 2019
The Best and the Brightest (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,859 ratings — published 1969
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,444 ratings — published 2012
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,860 ratings — published 2008
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,822 ratings — published 2019
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,117 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,442 ratings — published 1997
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,547 ratings — published 2019
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,199 ratings — published 2016
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,996 ratings — published 2014
Special Providence (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 579 ratings — published 2001
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,689 ratings — published 2005
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,082 ratings — published 1967
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,451 ratings — published 2005
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,389 ratings — published 2008
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,924 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.40 — 41,873 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 — 732 ratings — published 2018
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,639 ratings — published 2018
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,985 ratings — published 2014
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 — 4,873 ratings — published 1997
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,441 ratings — published 1987
American Diplomacy (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 698 ratings — published 1951
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,707 ratings — published 2006
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,454 ratings — published 2014
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 220,777 ratings — published 2011
George F. Kennan: An American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,660 ratings — published 2011
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,321 ratings — published 2008
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,635 ratings — published 2003
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,581 ratings — published 1991
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,253 ratings — published 2024
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,505 ratings — published 2018
“The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.”
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“During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose the war or be seen as losing the war.
'If we're not successful here,' Jones said, 'you'll have a staging base for global terrorism all over the world. People will say the terrorists won. And you'll see expressions of these kinds of things in Africa, South America, you name it. Any developing country is going to say, this is the way we beat [the United States], and we're going to have a bigger problem.' A setback or loss for the United States would be 'a tremendous boost for jihadist extremists, fundamentalists all over the world' and provide 'a global infusion of morale and energy, and these people don't need much.'
Jones went on, using the kind of rhetoric that Obama had shied away from, 'It's certainly a clash of civilizations. It's a clash of religions. It's a clash of almost concepts of how to live.' The conflict is that deep, he said. 'So I think if you don't succeed in Afghanistan, you will be fighting in more places.
'Second, if we don't succeed here, organizations like NATO, by association the European Union, and the United Nations might be relegated to the dustbin of history.'
Third, 'I say, be careful you don't over-Americanize the war. I know that we're going to do a large part of it,' but it was essential to get active, increased participation by the other 41 nations, get their buy-in and make them feel they have ownership in the outcome.
Fourth, he said that there had been way too much emphasis on the military, almost an overmilitarization of the war. The key to leaving a somewhat stable Afghanistan in a reasonable time frame was improving governance and the rule of law, in order to reduce corruption. There also needed to be economic development and more participation by the Afghan security forces.
It sounded like a good case, but I wondered if everyone on the American side had the same understanding of our goals. What was meant by victory? For that matter, what constituted not losing? And when might that happen? Could there be a deadline?”
― Obama's Wars
'If we're not successful here,' Jones said, 'you'll have a staging base for global terrorism all over the world. People will say the terrorists won. And you'll see expressions of these kinds of things in Africa, South America, you name it. Any developing country is going to say, this is the way we beat [the United States], and we're going to have a bigger problem.' A setback or loss for the United States would be 'a tremendous boost for jihadist extremists, fundamentalists all over the world' and provide 'a global infusion of morale and energy, and these people don't need much.'
Jones went on, using the kind of rhetoric that Obama had shied away from, 'It's certainly a clash of civilizations. It's a clash of religions. It's a clash of almost concepts of how to live.' The conflict is that deep, he said. 'So I think if you don't succeed in Afghanistan, you will be fighting in more places.
'Second, if we don't succeed here, organizations like NATO, by association the European Union, and the United Nations might be relegated to the dustbin of history.'
Third, 'I say, be careful you don't over-Americanize the war. I know that we're going to do a large part of it,' but it was essential to get active, increased participation by the other 41 nations, get their buy-in and make them feel they have ownership in the outcome.
Fourth, he said that there had been way too much emphasis on the military, almost an overmilitarization of the war. The key to leaving a somewhat stable Afghanistan in a reasonable time frame was improving governance and the rule of law, in order to reduce corruption. There also needed to be economic development and more participation by the Afghan security forces.
It sounded like a good case, but I wondered if everyone on the American side had the same understanding of our goals. What was meant by victory? For that matter, what constituted not losing? And when might that happen? Could there be a deadline?”
― Obama's Wars
