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Perspectives on International Relations

Power, Institutions, and Ideas

By: Henry R. Nau

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Perspectives on International Relations

Power, Institutions, and Ideas

By: Henry R. Nau

Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas shows students new to the field how theories (perspectives) of international affairs—realism, liberalism, constructivism (identity), and critical theory—play a decisive role in explaining every-day debates about world affairs. Why, for example, do politicians and political scientists disagree about the causes of the ongoing conflict in Syria, even though they all have the same facts? Or, why do policymakers disagree about how to deal with North Korea when they are all equally well informed? The new Sixth Edition of this best-seller includes updates on Brexit, the rise of Donald Trump and other populist leaders, and continuing developments for ISIS, Syria, and Russia.

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CQ Press

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1506396208

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9781506396200

Trade and Security

U.S. Policies at Cross-purposes

By: Henry R. Nau

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Trade and Security

U.S. Policies at Cross-purposes

By: Henry R. Nau

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

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140

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844770388

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9780844770383

Conservative Internationalism

Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan

By: Henry R. Nau

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Conservative Internationalism

Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan

By: Henry R. Nau

A reexamination of America's overloaded foreign policy tradition and its importance for global politics today Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions—liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this book, distinguished political scientist Henry Nau delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions. Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries—Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources.

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348

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Princeton University Press

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0691168490

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9780691168494

At Home Abroad

Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy

By: Henry R. Nau

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At Home Abroad

Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy

By: Henry R. Nau

The United States has never felt at home abroad. The reason for this unease, even after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is not frequent threats to American security. It is America's identity. The United States, its citizens believe, is a different country, a New World of divided institutions and individualistic markets surviving in an Old World of nationalistic governments and statist economies. In this Old World, the United States finds no comfort and alternately tries to withdraw from it and reform it. America cycles between ambitious internationalist efforts to impose democracy and world order, and more nationalist appeals to trim multilateral commitments and demand that the European and Japanese allies do more. In At Home Abroad, Henry R. Nau explains that America is still unique but no longer so very different. All the industrial great powers in western Europe (and, arguably, also Japan) are now strong liberal democracies. A powerful and peaceful new world exists beyond America's borders and anchors America's identity, easing its discomfort and ending the cycle of withdrawal and reform. Nau draws on constructivist and realist perspectives to show how relative national identities interact with relative national power to define U.S. national interests. He provides fresh insights for U.S. grand strategy toward various countries. In Europe, the identity and power perspective advocates U.S. support for both NATO expansion to consolidate democratic identities in eastern Europe and concurrent, but separate, great-power cooperation with Russia in the United Nations. In Asia, this perspective recommends a shift of U.S. strategy from bilateralism to concentric multilateralism, starting with an emerging democratic security community among the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Taiwan, and progressively widening this community to include reforming ASEAN states and, if it democratizes, China. In the developing world, Nau's approach calls for balancing U.S. moral (identity) and material (power) commitments, avoiding military intervention for purely moral reasons, as in Somalia, but undertaking such intervention when material threats are immediate, as in Afghanistan, or material and moral stakes coincide, as in Kosovo.

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Cornell University Press

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150172911X

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The Myth of America's Decline

Leading the World Economy Into the 1990s

By: Henry R. Nau

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The Myth of America's Decline

Leading the World Economy Into the 1990s

By: Henry R. Nau

Challenging the pessimists who focus only on the decline of American power, Nau argues that outcomes depend much more on how America defines its political identity or national purposes in the world community and what specific economic policies it chooses. In recent years, America has projected a more self-confident political identity, anchoring an unprecedented trend even in the former communist states toward freer political institutions; and future American economic choices, especially the need to reduce the budget deficit, still hold the key to preserving and enhancing what considerable power the United States retains.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195072723

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Perspectives on International Relations

Power, Institutions, and Ideas

By: Henry R. Nau

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Perspectives on International Relations

Power, Institutions, and Ideas

By: Henry R. Nau

Henry R. Nau's best-selling book, Perspectives on International Relations, is admired for its even-handed presentation of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical theory and for expertly applying those perspectives to world affairs in every chapter. Students explore the ways these different perspectives shape our understanding of the root causes of historical events and current controversies, and they learn to think critically about the world's most urgent issues. The new Seventh Edition includes updates on Brexit, the rise of nationalism, the escalation of terrorism, the use of social media in political protests around the world, and continuing developments in North Korea, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia.

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1071801554

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The Mennonites of America

By: C. Henry Smith

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The Mennonites of America

By: C. Henry Smith

Although the story of the religious life of the Mennonites may be told in few words, yet they have been the founders of the first German colony in America and have been among the pioneers in many of the frontier settlements in the westward expansion of the American people. And for this reason their history is of interest also to the student of general American history. I have attempted therefore to trace in this volume not only the history of the Mennonite church but also the complete life story of the Mennonite people, and have treated such phases of the subject as I could find material for. I have attempted further to cover the entire field of American Mennonite history and have tried to place every event of importance in its proper perspective. So far as possible I have tried to be impartial toward the various branches of the church and have given each the amount of space which according to my judgment is importance deserved. --from the Introduction

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1556353154

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Conservative Internationalism

Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan

By: Henry R. Nau

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Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan

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Princeton University Press

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0691168490

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At Home Abroad

Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy

By: Henry R. Nau

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Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy

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Cornell University Press

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The Myth of America's Decline

Leading the World Economy Into the 1990s

By: Henry R. Nau

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Leading the World Economy Into the 1990s

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Perspectives on International Relations

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At Home Abroad

At Home Abroad

The Myth of America's Decline

The Myth of America's Decline

Perspectives on International Relations

Perspectives on International Relations

The Mennonites of America

The Mennonites of America

Conservative Internationalism

Conservative Internationalism

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The Myth of America's Decline

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