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Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,573 ratings — published 1994
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,783 ratings — published 2006
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,508 ratings — published 2014
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 — 19,609 ratings — published 2004
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,948 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 4.18 — 124,480 ratings — published 2015
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,509 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 — 8,690 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 — 4,880 ratings — published 2006
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,363 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 — 14,399 ratings — published 1996
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,912 ratings — published 2019
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,146 ratings — published 2007
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,587 ratings — published 2000
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,270 ratings — published 2017
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,145 ratings — published 1954
The Best and the Brightest (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,079 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 — 66,968 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 — 11,155 ratings — published 2002
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,192 ratings — published 2003
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,917 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 — 7,668 ratings — published 2017
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,293 ratings — published 2019
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,609 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 — 26,184 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 4.19 — 5,189 ratings — published 2014
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,183 ratings — published 2012
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,262 ratings — published 2016
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,128 ratings — published 1967
Special Providence (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 589 ratings — published 2001
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,355 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 — 2,394 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 — 6,651 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 — 12,834 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,791 ratings — published 2005
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,083 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 — 39,266 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 — 2,202 ratings — published 1986
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 — 742 ratings — published 2018
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,772 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 — 225,972 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 4.00 — 4,959 ratings — published
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,346 ratings — published 2008
American Diplomacy (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 723 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 — 13,152 ratings — published 2003
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,754 ratings — published 2024
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,527 ratings — published 2022
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 — 3,021 ratings — published 2014
George F. Kennan: An American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,701 ratings — published 2011
Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foreign-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 420 ratings — published 1976
“Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic expansion. The bourgeoisie turned to politics out of economic necessity; for if it did not want to give up the capitalist system whose inherent law is constant economic growth, it had to impose this law upon its home governments and to proclaim expansion to be an ultimate political goal of foreign policy.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really does believe this, his lethargy and impotence in the face of Netanyahu's consistent double-dealing is even more culpable.) The Islamist fanatics have their own agenda, and, as in the case of Hamas and its Iranian backers, they have already demonstrated that nothing but the destruction of Israel and the removal of American influence from the region will possibly satisfy them. No, it is more the case that justice—and a homeland for the Palestinians—is a good and necessary cause in its own right. It is also a special legal and moral responsibility of the United States, which has several times declared a dual-statehood outcome to be its objective.”
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