At Issue: Politics in the World Arena, Second Edition

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This popular reader for the International Relations survey course includes 33 contributions by leading scholars & political leaders. Includes bibliographical references A sense of drift, a time for calm / Richard Holbrooke -- Is United States foreign policy imperialist or imperial? / Jerome Slater -- The case for nonintervention / Melvin Burtov -- The universalization of ethnicity / Nathan Glazer -- Ambush at Kamikaze pass / Tom Englehardt -- The United States in opposition / Daniel P. Moynihan -- The United States and the third world: a basis for accommodation / Tom J. Farer -- The strategy of terrorism / David Fromkin -- Is peace possible in the Middle East? / Walter Laqueur -- The Soviet Union, China and the West in Southern Africa / Colin Legum -- Face-off in Panama: U.S. imperialist, old and new / Penny Lernoux -- Appeasment & detente / Theodore Draper -- Detente is in the eye of the beholder / Roger Morris -- The ardent Asian suitors / Stanley Karnow -- Japan, the ultimate domino? / Keyes Beach -- On a tightrope in Southeast Asia / Donald Kirk -- Red votes in the ballot box / Richard C. Longworth -- The abdication of Europe / Ronald Steel -- The hot deals and cold wars of Henry Kissinger / Simon Head -- Dilemmas and dead ends: America and the Middle East crisis / Steven L. Spiegel -- Handicapping the arms race / Barry M. Blechman -- Assuring strategic stability in an era of detente / Paul H. Nitze -- The SALT sell or, who will bell the pentagon? / John Holum -- Nuclear spread and world order / Lincoln P. Bloomfield -- Europe's identity crisis / Daniel Yergin -- The use of the United Nations in world politics / Abraham Yeselson, Anthony Gaglione -- The multinational corporation and the nation-state / Robert L. Heilbroner -- The ten commandments of the foreign affairs bureaucracy / Leslie H. Gelb, Morton H. Halperin -- The intelligence tangle / Sanford J. Ungar -- How could Vietnam happen? An autopsy / James C. Thomson, Jr. -- How poverty breeds overpopulation / Barry Commoner -- Oil: the strategic utility / Josiah Lee Auspitz -- An exchange of views: oil and power politics, thinking about an oil war / Paul Seabury -- Oil and power politics / Touma Arida -- The moral issue / Paul Seabury -- American agripower and the future of a hungry world / Dan Morgan