Statecraft And How to Restore America's Standing in the World

Name: Statecraft And How to Restore America's Standing in the World
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ISBN: 9780374531195

ISBN-10: 0374531196

ISBN-13: 9780374531195

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dennis Ross

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In this wise and thought-provoking book, the renowned peace negotiator Dennis Ross shows that America’s current foreign policy problems stem from the Bush administration’s inability to use the tools of statecraft to advance our national interests. Ross explains that in the globalized world—with its fluid borders, terrorist networks, and violent unrest—statecraft is more necessary than ever. In vivid chapters, he outlines how statecraft helped shape a new world order after 1989. He shows how the failure of statecraft in Iraq and throughout the Middle East has undercut the United States and makes clear that only statecraft can check the rise of China and the danger of a nuclear Iran. He draws…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Dennis Ross, Middle East envoy and the chief peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is now a counselor and distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.



Preface



The Bush Foreign Policy and the Need for Statecraft



Cases of Statecraft: German Unification in NATO



Cases of Statecraft: Bosnia



Cases of Statecraft: Undoing Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait



Cases of Statecraft: Saddam, George W. Bush, and the Iraq War



Lessons of Statecraft for Today



Statecraft in a new World



Negotiations as an Instrument of Statecraft



Negotiations: Twelve Rules to Follow



Mediation in a World of Local Conflict



Eleven Rules for Mediation



Practicing Statecraft: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict



Practicing Statecraft: Radical Islam and the Challenge of Iran



Practicing Statecraft: China's Rise


Conclusion: Statecraft Restored: A Neoliberal Agenda for U.S. Foreign Policy


Afterword


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index