This important and original volume assesses what we now know about world politics and American foreign policy after more than a decade of the post-Cold War era, and the wider implications of this experience both for the U.S role in the 21st Century and for international relations more broadly. The chapter authors are leading authorities in their fields, and their contributions integrate both foreign and domestic setting for foreign policy. Part I looks at public opinion, debates about humanitarian intervention, the use of force in foreign conflicts, and congressional-executive relations in the making of foreign policy. Part II deals with the key regional issues confronting the United States, including the Middle East, Europe, Russia, China and East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Part III addresses major functional topics, including international economics and trade, defense policy, proliferation, “rogue” states, the environment, and America's relationship to the United Nations. For individuals interested in the United State's degree of international primacy—the impact of domestic politics on its world role, and the longer-term implications of foreign policy.
Robert J. Lieber is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he served as Chair of the Government Department from 1990 to 1996 and as Interim Chair of Psychology from 1997 to 1999. He is an expert on American foreign policy and on U.S. relations with Europe and the Middle East. Lieber was born and raised in Chicago, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. at Harvard. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also taught at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of California, Davis, and has been Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College Oxford, the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Atlantic Institute in Paris, the Brookings Institution and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, and Fudan University in Shanghai.
Dr. Lieber is author or editor of twelve other books on international relations and U.S. foreign policy. His authored works include No Common Power: Understanding International Relations, Fourth Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2001), The Oil Decade (1986), Oil and the Middle East War: Europe in the Energy Crisis (1976), Contemporary Politics: Europe (coauthor, 1976), Theory and World Politics (1972), and British Politics and European Unity (1970). In addition, he is editor and contributing author of Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century (1997). And with Kenneth Oye and Donald Rothchild, he is coeditor and contributing author of four previous volumes on American foreign policy: Eagle in a New World: American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era (1992); Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in American Foreign Policy (1987); Eagle Defiant: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1980s (1983); and Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World (1979).
Dr. Lieber also has been a foreign policy advisor in several presidential campaigns, a frequent contributor to both scholarly journals and newspapers, and a participant in foreign affairs analysis on television and radio. Among his other credits are "killer" tennis and a walk-on part in the Alfred Hitchcock film classic North by Northwest.
