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In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world. In this book, a diplomat and a historian revisit that perception by examining and reproducing several of their own essays during the past twenty years. The essays reveal that Trump's style exaggerates tendencies towards unilateralism already present in the actions, if not the policies, of previous presidents, and in their neglect of three imperatives: collective security, regional integration, and diplomatic imagination. It is not too late, however, to remedy the problem by learning the lessons of the recent past.

Practical Lessons from US Foreign Policy: The Itinerant Years

Chapter One: Introduction: How Did We Get Here?
Part I
Chapter Two: Global Challenges1. We're All Powerful and All Alone (1999)2. US Must Avoid Temptation to Shift Priorities Toward Asia (2001)3. Bush Should Seize His Chance to Recast US Ties with China (2001)4. US Needs Alliances, Not Short-Term Allies (2002)5. Thank the Friends: Doing America's Work at the UN (2002)6. A Nuclear Arms Race (2003)7. Bush's Corrosive Campaign of Fear (2003)8. The Nature of Freedom (2004)9. America's Strategic Surrender (2006)10. US Must Take Offensive Against Nuclear Terrorism (2007)11. The False Promise of 1989 (2009)12. Diplomacy 2.0 (2010)13. US Diplomats: A Vanishing Species? (2010)14. End of a Nuclear Era (2013)
Chapter Three: National Policies15. Back to Basics: US Foreign Policy for the Coming Decade (2000)16. Diplomatic Cathedral-Building (2002)17. Ike-Like Diplomacy Instead of War (2002)18. The Way to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons (2003)19. American Diplomacy - What You See is What You Get (2007)20. Mugged by Reality? (2008)21. Obama's World Tour: A Rising or a Setting Sun? (2010)22. The Strange Rebirth of American Leadership (2011)23. Pivots Forward, Backward, and Sideways (2012)24. Recipe for a Post-Hegemonic USA (2013)
Part II
Chapter Four: Regional Problems25. The Consequences of Russia's Actions - Who Will Cast the First Stone? (1999)26. Don't Rush to the Altar With India (2001)27. Afghanistan Stalemate Fosters Reevaluation of Stabilization Tactics (2001)28. Asia Needs a Common Defence (2001)29. The European Way: Asians Need a Regional Security Net (2002)30. East Asia: Connecting the Dots Isn't Optional (2002)31. Juggling a Two-Front Crisis (2003)32. Time for Jaw-Jaw with North Korea (2003)33. NATO Can't Be Globocop (2004)34. The US is Losing Ground on Korea Talks (2004)35. The Coming Showdown with Iran (2009)36. The Elusive Afghanistan Strategy (2009)37. Obama, "America's First Pacific President"? (2009)38. The Putin Doctrine and Preventive Diplomacy (2014)
Chapter Five: Regional Solutions39. Save the Caucasus from Balkan-like Crisis (2000)40. Defending Missile Defense (2001)41. NATO and the Future of War (2001)42. Afghanistan Interim Government "Solution" Could Leave Regional Problems Intact (2001)43. EU to Adopt Higher Profile in Recasting Europe (2002)44. European Defense: An Alliance with 2 Tiers (2003)45. Rescuing the UN Security Council: Should We? Can We? (2004)46. Enlarge the North Korean Problem (2005)47. Democratic Lessons from Helsinki and Central Asia (2005)48. Chart New Course for Lasting Peace (2006)49. French Return to NATO Military Command Could Spur Greater Alliance Mission Clarity (2009)50. A Possible "Off-Ramp" in North Korea (2013)51. Redirecting US Diplomacy (2014)52. A Middle East, Whole and Free (2015)
Chapter Six: Conclusion: What Have We Learned?