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Foreign Politics of the USA

The world's policeman or splendid isolation – the role of the US on the world stage has historically shifted between extremes. With each new administration it might take yet another turn. Learn from these summaries what strategies experts prescribe for todays's geopolitical challenges or how they view the current dealings between the US and their partners or adversaries.

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Summaries

9 Book

The United States vs. China

The Quest for Global Economic Leadership
C. Fred Bergsten
Polity Press, 2022
8 Book

Liberty and Security in a Changing World

Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies et al.
Princeton UP, 2013
9 Book

Treacherous Alliance

The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S.
Trita Parsi
Yale UP, 2007
8 Book
Ken Blanchard et al.
Berrett-Koehler, 2000
7 Article

ZTE: When Disaster Strikes

What US sanctions could mean for the Chinese telecom giant
Rao Wenyi and Zhang Yiyu
Jiemian, 2018
8 Book

The South China Sea

The Struggle for Power in Asia
Bill Hayton
Yale UP, 2014
9 Book

Two Nations Indivisible

Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Shannon K. O’Neil
Oxford UP, 2013
8 Book

The Choice

Global Domination or Global Leadership
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic Books, 2004
6 Book

America Alone

The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
Jonathan Clarke and Stefan Halper
Cambridge UP, 2004
Book

A World in Disarray

American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Article

China Deserves Donald Trump

It took a human wrecking ball to get China’s attention.
Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times, 2019
7 Article
Northern Finance Institute
China Finance 40 Forum, 2018