Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense PolicyRobert Kagan, William Kristol This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000. Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay. |
Contents
National Interestand Global Responsibility | 3 |
American Interventionism and its Opponents | 25 |
I I The Mounting Threat | 45 |
The Challenge of a Rising Power | 47 |
The Challenge of a Failing Power | 75 |
Saddam Unbound | 99 |
Fundamentalism and Reform | 111 |
Beyond Appeasement | 145 |
Israel and the Peace Process | 221 |
The Decline of Americas Armed Forces | 241 |
The Strategic Case | 267 |
Strength and Principle | 287 |
Morality Character and American Foreign Policy | 289 |
Statesmanship in the New Century | 307 |
A Historical Perspective | 337 |
Notes | 367 |
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