This fifth edition of "Taking Sides: Clashing Views in American Foreign Policy" presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An online instructor's manual with testing material is available for each volume in "The Taking Sides Series". "Using Taking Sides in the Classroom" is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each "Taking Sides" reader features an annotated listing of selected world wide web sites.
| ISBN | 0073545643 | | Weight (grammes) | 510 | | ISBN13 | 9780073545646
(What's this?) | | Reprint date | 31-Mar-2010 12:00:00 am | | Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | | Published in | London | | Imprint | McGraw Hill Higher Education | | Series title | Taking Sides | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780073397221 | | Publication date | 01 Feb 2010 | | Height (mm) | 231 | | DEWEY | 327.73 | | Width (mm) | 149 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | Pages | 384 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | Volumes | 1 | |
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<HTML> Table of Contents TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in American Foreign Policy Fifth Edition <dt> Unit 1 The United States and the World: Strategic Choices <dl> <dl> <dl> <dt>Issue 1. Is American Hegemony Good for the United States and the World? YES: Michael Mandelbaum, from David s Friend Goliath, Foreign Policy (January/February 2006) NO: Jack Snyder, from Imperial Temptations, The National Interest (Spring 2003) Michael Mandelbaum, a professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University, argues that most countries in the world benefit greatly from America s efforts to provide regional stability, limit proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and maintain a free trading system. As a result, other countries are not responding to America s power by traditional power balancing. Jack Snyder, professor of international relations at Columbia University, argues that U.S. leaders have bought into the myths that entrapped imperial powers in the past, and that American unilateralism is creating nationalist backlashes against the United States, leading to a risk of imperial overstretch in which U.S. commitments would overburden American capabilities. <dt>Issue 2. Is the United States in Decline? YES: Richard N. Haass, from The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance, Foreign Affairs (May/June 2008) NO: Robert J. Lieber, from Falling Upwards: Declinism, the Box Set, World Affairs Journal (Summer 2008) Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, maintains that the world is entering a period of nonpolarity due to the relative decline of the United States and the dispersal of power to both other states and nonstate actors. No single rival can match U.S. power, but the general dispersal of power will make it more difficult for the United States to achieve international cooperation on security, environmental, and economic issues. Robert J. Lieber, professor of government at Georgetown University, points out that forecasts of American decline in the 1970s and 1980s proved to be inaccurate. The United States retains a preponderance of power and America s potential rivals face problems of their own that will prevent them from matching U.S. power. <dt>Issue 3. Should Promoting Democracy Abroad Be a Top U.S. Priority? YES: Joseph Siegle, from Developing Democracy: Democratizers Surprisingly Bright Development Record, Harvard International Review (Summer 2004) NO: Tamara Cofman Wittes, from Arab Democracy, American Ambivalence, The Weekly Standard (February 23, 2004) Joseph Siegle, Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that large numbers of countries are continuing to democratize and, because of the increase in accountability associated with democratization, they tend to experience economic growth as fast as, if not faster than, other countries in the same region. Tamara Cofman Wittes, research fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, argues that U.S. efforts to promote democracy in Iraq and the Arab Middle East are likely to fail unless the U.S. government matches its rhetoric with a credible commitment to promote policies institutionalizing the forward movement of liberalism in Iraq and the region at large. <dt> Unit 2 U.S. National Security Issues <dl> <dl> <dl> <dt>Issue 4. Should the United States Withdraw from Iraq Expeditiously? YES: Marc Lynch, from How to Get Out of Iraq, Foreign Policy (January 2009) NO: David H. Petraeus, from Testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services (September 10, 2007) Marc Lynch, associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, argues that the situation in Iraq remains fragile, but that the failure to withdraw U.S. troops on the schedule President Barack Obama proposed on the campaign trail would caus
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