The world has been searching for a new paradigm for the conduct of foreign policy and world politics since the end of the cold war. The new world system and the rules of the game for interactions among states, multinational organizations, and nongovernment organizations and other nonstate actors are still being defined. Politicians, diplomats, soldiers, and academicians seek new perspectives and greater understanding to design strategies for defending and advancing our nation's security, economic interests, and values. It ...
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The world has been searching for a new paradigm for the conduct of foreign policy and world politics since the end of the cold war. The new world system and the rules of the game for interactions among states, multinational organizations, and nongovernment organizations and other nonstate actors are still being defined. Politicians, diplomats, soldiers, and academicians seek new perspectives and greater understanding to design strategies for defending and advancing our nation's security, economic interests, and values. It is a time of transition, danger, and opportunity. In Democracy, Morality, and the Search for Peace in America's Foreign Policy, University of Oklahoma president David L. Boren and Ambassador Edward J. Perkins share and draw conclusions about United States foreign policy from the thoughts of nine of the world's most respected leaders, practitioners, and scholars, including Lady Margaret Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Paul Kennedy, Lawrence Eagleburger, Brent Scowcroft, and William J. Crowe, Jr. The issues of intra-state and religious conflict, terrorism, the environment, international crime, and development and governance have forced their way to prominent places on the world agenda. This book analyzes challenges these and suggests prescriptions for dealing with them.
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