Books from Council on Foreign Relations

  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
    By Charles D. Ferguson, William James Perry, Brent Scowcroft

    43 (2003) Threats to Democracy: Prevention and Response Madeleine K. Albright and Bronislaw Geremek, Chairs; Morton H. Halperin, Director; Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, Associate Director Independent Task Force Report No.

  • Balkans 2010: Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Action
    By Edward C. Meyer, William L. Nash, Council on Foreign Relations

    ... Project Director , Elizabeth Frawley Bagley , Associate Director * + America - Still Unprepared , Still in Danger ( 2002 ) Gary Hart and Warren B. Rudman , Co - Chairs ; Stephen Flynn , Project Director * + Terrorist Financing ...

  • More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa : Report of an Independent Task Force
    By Christine Todd Whitman, Anthony Lake, Princeton Nathan Lyman

    Outside the Horn, an Algerian movement, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has attempted to enlist and train adherentsfromamongneighboringSahelianstates,makinguseoftrans- Sahara smuggling routes, the region's vast ...

  • Managing Illegal Immigration to the United States: How Effective Is Enforcement?
    By Bryan Roberts, Edward Alden, John Whitley

    ... Barry Edmonston, and Jeffrey S. Passel, eds., Undocumented migration to the United States: IrcA and the Experience of the 1980s (Washington, DC, and Santa Monica, CA: Urban Institute Press and RAND Corporation, 1990).

  • The Clash of Civilizations? The Debate
    By James Hoge Jr F

    More than a decade later, "The Clash of Civilizations?" continues to be a touchstone in global politics as writers passionately debate its merits and propose countertheories of their own.This collection presents the original, seminal essay ...

  • Finding America's Voice: A Strategy for Reinvigorating U.S. Public Diplomacy : Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the...
    By Council on Foreign Relations, Peter G. Peterson, Henry Anatole Grunwald

    The Council's Independent Task Force on Public Diplomacy was formed to devise fresh and creative responses to a problem that has too often received short shrift by the U.S. government.

  • U.S. Trade and Investment Policy
    By Edward H. Alden, Andrew H. Card, Matthew Jon Slaughter

    From American master Ward Just, returning to his trademark territory of "Forgetfulness "and "The Weather in Berlin," an evocative portrait of diplomacy and desire set against the backdrop of America's first lost war

  • U.S. Immigration Policy
    By Edward H. Alden, Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, Jeb Bush

    Few issues on the American political agenda are more complex or divisive than immigration. There is no shortage of problems with current policies and practices, from the difficulties and delays...

  • The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate

    The consummate collection of readings on contemporary international relations.

  • Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances
    By Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan David Aronson

    See also James P. Womack , Daniel T. Jones , and Daniel Roos , The Machine That Changed the World ( New York : Rawson Associates , 1990 ) . 3. No persuasive economic argument exists that voluntary export restraints aimed against Japan ...

  • The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in East Asia
    By Michael Mandelbaum, David M. Lampton, Robert Legvold

    In The Strategic Quadrangle five experts on East Asia explore the new shape of power among the major players in the region - Russia, China, Japan, and the United States.

  • Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options
    By David G. Victor

    Council on Foreign Relations This book provides a balanced and comprehensive account of the issues involved in climate change and the range of domestic and foreign policy options available to American policymakers.

  • Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy : Report of an Independent Task Force
    By George E. Pataki, Thomas J. Vilsack, Michael A. Levi

    Independent Task Force on Climate Change, George E. Pataki, Thomas J. Vilsack, Michael A. Levi, David G. Victor, ... (2003); Peter G. Peterson, Chair; Jennifer Sieg, Project Director Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, ...

  • Global FDI Policy: Correcting a Protectionist Drift
    By Matthew Jon Slaughter, David Matthew Marchick

    ... O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP Nicholas R. Lardy PETER G. PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Scott Morris HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES Janice O'Connell HOGAN & HARTSON LLP Jeffrey R. Shafer CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

  • U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula
    By Scott Snyder, Charles L. Pritchard, John H. Tilelli

    56 (2006) In the Wake of War: Improving Post-Conflict Capabilities Samuel R. Berger and Brent Scowcroft, Chairs; William L. Nash, Project Director; Mona K. Sutphen, Deputy Director Independent Task Force Report No.

  • The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose
    By Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson, Professor of American Diplomacy School of Advanced International Studies Robert W Tucker

    In this critical analysis of American foreign policy priorities, Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson argue that the first Bush Administration, in its attempts to address the challenges posed by the new global realties, betrayed the ...

  • Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts
    By James B. Steinberg, Ph.D., Formerly Research Fellow Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Jeffrey Clark

    David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Color and National Independence in Haiti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 10. Ibid., p. 5. According to Nicholls, racial prejudice and the fear of similar revolts were ...

  • US Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan
    By Richard Lee Armitage, Samuel R. Berger, Daniel Seth Markey

    ... Chairs; Morton H. Halperin, Lawrence J. Korb, and Richard M. Moose, Project Directors Independent Task Force Report No. ... 6 (1996) Managing the Taiwan Issue: Key Is Better U.S. Relations with China Stephen Friedman, Chair; ...

  • U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan: Independent Task Force Report
    By Richard Lee Armitage, Samuel R. Berger, Daniel Seth Markey

    Ahead of President Obama's December review of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan finds that the current approach ...

  • Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities: International Norms and U.S. Policy
    By Matthew C. Waxman

    Several other outside experts provided valuable comments along the way, including Todd Buchwald, William Burke-White, Michael Doyle, and Michael Mattler. Several CFRstaffmembers have significantly contributedtothisproject: Assistant ...