Does America need a foreign policy? : toward a diplomacy for the 21st century / Henry Kissinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2001]

Summary:

In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, at once far-seeing and brilliantly readable, America's most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in the post-Cold War world of globalization.

Dr. Henry Kissinger covers the wide range of problems facing the United States at the beginning of a new millennium and a new presidency, with particular attention to such hot spots as Vladimir Putin's Russia, the new China, the globalized economy, and the demand for humanitarian intervention. He challenges Americans to understand that our foreign policy must be built upon America's permanent national interests, defining what these are, or should be, in the year 2001 and for the foreseeable future.

Here Dr. Kissinger shares with readers his insights into the foreign policy problems and opportunities that confront the United States today, including the challenge to conventional diplomacy posed by globalization, rapid capital movement, and instant communication; the challenge of modernizing China; the impact of Russia's precipitous decline from superpower status; the growing estrangement between the United States and Europe; the questions that arise from making "humanitarian intervention" a part of "the New Diplomacy"; and the prospect that America's transformation into the one remaining superpower and global leader may unite other countries against presumed imperial ambitions.

Viewing America's international position through the immediate lens of policy choices rather than from the distant hindsight of historical analysis, Dr. Kissinger takes an approach to the country's current role as the world's dominant power that offers both an invaluable perspective on the state of the Union in global affairs and a careful, detailed prescription on exactly how we must proceed.

In seven accessible chapters, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? provides a crystalline assessment of how the United States' ascendancy as the world's dominant presence in the twentieth century may be effectively reconciled with the urgent need in the twenty-first century to achieve a bold new world order. By examining America's present and future relations with Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, in conjunction with emerging concerns such as globalization, nuclear weapons proliferation, free trade, and the planet's eroding natural environment, Dr. Kissinger lays out a compelling and comprehensively drawn vision for American policy in approaching decades.

Contents:

1 America at the Apex: Empire or Leader? 17

The Changing Nature of the International Environment

America's Challenge

2 America and Europe: The World of Democracies I 32

The Transformation of the Atlantic Relationship

The Change in Atlantic and European Leadership

The Future of European Integration

European Integration and Atlantic Cooperation

Strategic Doctrine: European Military Crisis Management

Strategic Doctrine: Missile Defense and the Atlantic Alliance

Relations with Russia

Toward a New Structure in Atlantic Relations

3 The Western Hemisphere: The World of Democracies II 83

Revolution in the Region

New Challenges

Is There a Road Out of Chaos? Plan Colombia

The Promise of the Western Hemisphere

NAFTA and Mercosur

4 Asia: The World of Equilibrium 110

Asia's Geopolitical Complexity

Relations with Japan

Relations with Korea

Relations with China: The Historical Context

Relations with China: The Strategic Context

Taiwan and China

India

5 The Middle East and Africa: Worlds in Transition 164

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Where Do We Go from Here?

America and the Gulf

Iraq

Iran

Whither Africa?

The African Environment

Toward an African Policy

6 The Politics of Globalization 211

Economics and Politics

Crisis Management and the International Monetary Fund

Political Evolution and Globalization

7 Peace and Justice 234

The American Tradition

Roosevelt and Wilson

The New Interventionism

Humanitarian Intervention and the National Interest: Four Principles

Humanitarian Intervention and the Context of History

Universal Jurisdiction

Conclusion: Information and Knowledge 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-296) and index.

ISBN:

0684855674

OCLC:

46359522