Present dangers : crisis and opportunity in American foreign and defense policy

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. Antologi. Indeholder en beskrivelse og vurdering af USA's sikkerhedspolitiske situation efter afslutningen af Den Kolde rig og Desert Storm under Golfkrigen i 1999, som har medført, at USA som den eneste supermagt vil være uden udfordringer i mange år fremover. Bemærk at bogen er skrevet før 11. september 2001 og invasionen af Irak i 2003. Forfatterne mener, at USA må skabe en ny international orden mhp. at beskytte sine interesser og bidrage til at skabe nye demokratier rundt om i verden. Bogen er inddelt i fire hovedafsnit således: I: An Overview(National Interest and Global Responsibility; The Great Divide: American Internationalism and its Opponents). II: The Mounting Threat (China:The Challenge of a Rising Power; Russia: The Challenge of a Failing Power; Iraq: Saddam Unbound; Iran: Fundamentalism and Reform; North Korea: Beyond Appeasement). III: Allies and Military Assets (Europe and NATO; Asian Allies: True Strategic Partners; Israel and "The Peace Process"; The Decline of America's Armed Forces; Weapons Proliferation and Missile Defense: The Strategic Case). IV: American Leadership: Strength and Principle (Morality, Character and American Foreign Policy; Statemanship in the New Century; Strength and Will: A Historical Perspective) With each passing day the world seems to become a more perilous place. Russia implodes and China expands; North Korea develops missiles capable of striking Hawaii and Alaska; and Iraq perfects weapons of mass destruction that could be smuggled into New York in a suitcase. Yet America, the most powerful country in the world, also at times seems the most uncertain when it comes to protecting itself from these threats. In Present Dangers, Robert Kagan and William Kristol have compiled twelve provocative and sobering essays, all original for this volume, from intellectuals, historians and policy-m Includes twelve essays from intellectuals, historians and policy-makers that challenge America to take a hard look at the coming crises in our foreign policy. This work presents a case for repairing our depleted military, for a crash program of missile defense, and for a rethinking of whom our possible adversaries and real strategic partners are. A little over twenty years ago, a group of concerned Americans formed the Committee on the Present Danger.