Beschreibung:
This insightful text helps students make sense of the ever-changing environment and factors that influence disagreement over national security risks and policy in the United States. The book takes shape through a focus on three considerations: strategy, policy, and issues.
CONTENTS: Introduction: Where We Are Now 1. The National Security Equation: U.S. Policy in Transition 2. War....What Is It Good For? 3. Shifting Rationales: Humanitarian Intervention? 4. The American Half-Century: The Cold War Paradigm 5. Factors in the New Environment: Possibilities and Limitations 6. The Syrian Microcosm and Beyond--The IS Conundrum 7. Paradigm for a New Era