One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely re-written, the Second Edition of this classic text is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories and events surrounding the Cuban Missle Crisis, incorporating all new information from the Kennedy tapes and recently declassified Soviet files. Essence of Decision Second Edition, is a vivid look at decision-making under pressure and is the only single volume work that attempts to answer the enduring question: how should citizens understand the actions of their government?

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

History

Philip Zelikow

Graham, Allison

Americas

Pearson P T R

Aspen Policy Books is a series devoted to developing critical new thinking on U.S. national security policy. This book is a collection of papers prepared for the 2008 summer Aspen Strategy Group conference on The Instruments &amp; Institutions of American Purpose. These chapters represent a thorough accounting of the capabilities and limitations of the key organizations diplomatic, military, financial, and intelligence that American policymakers rely upon to address global challenges.

The Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose

Brent Scowcroft

Aspen Strategy Group

Robert Gallucci

Ashton Carter

Richard Falkenrath

Diana Farrell

Lael Brainard

David Lipton

Ivo Daalder

Samuel Berger

Thomas Donilon

Andrew Krepinevich

John Podesta

Joseph Nye

Antony Blinken

The Aspen Institute

The Aspen Strategy Group's Policy Books is an annual series of pieces written by contemporary thought leaders on the most pressing U.S. foreign policy and national security issues. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2015 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, in Aspen, Colorado. The summer workshop convened a nonpartisan group of foreign policy experts, academics, journalists, and business leaders. The group's policy discussions were guided by the papers in this volume, which evaluate the roots of extremism, the rise of the Islamic State, and the costs and risks associated with intensifying U.S. engagement in Iraq and Syria. CONTENT: The Ninth Annual Ernest May Memorial Lecture: Idealism of What Works. By Philip Zelikow CHAPTER 1: US Trade Policy Toward Asia: Strategic Questions. By Michael Froman CHAPTER 2: Restoring the Case for Free Trade. By Stephen E. Biegun CHAPTER 3: Real News, Fake News: The Assault on Truth, the Free Press, and the Liberal Order. By Carla Anne Robbins CHAPTER 4: Short of War: Cyber Conflict and the Corrosion of International Order. By David E. Sanger CHAPTER 5: An Even Flatter World: How Technology Is Remaking the World Order. By Christopher Kirchhoff CHAPTER 6: An Irresistible Force Meets a Moveable Object: The Technology Tsunami and the Liberal World Order. By Richard Danzig CHAPTER 7: Maintaining America’s Lead in Creating and Applying New Technology. By Deutch and Condoleezza Rice CHAPTER 8: China’s Economic March: Will It Undermine the Liberal World Order? By Anja Manuel CHAPTER 9: China and the Liberal World Order. By David Shambaugh CHAPTER 10: More Tooth, Less Tail: Getting Beyond NATO’s 2 Percent Rule. By John Dowdy CHAPTER 11: NATO and Its Authoritarian Member States. By Dov S. Zakheim CHAPTER 12: Russia’s Campaign Against American Democracy: Toward a Strategy for Defending Against, Countering, and Ultimately Deterring Future Attacks. By Michèle A. Flournoy CHAPTER 13: Modernizing the International System: What Needs to Change? By Stephen Hadley CHAPTER 14: Modernizing the Liberal Order: What Needs Fixing? By Madeleine K. Albright

Blind Spot: America's Response to Radicalism in the Middle East

Politics & Social Sciences

Dov Zakheim

Bernard Haykel

Farah Pandith

Shadi Hamid

Vali Nasr

Ryan Crocker

DAVID IGNATIUS

William McCants

Graeme Wood

James E. Cartwright

Frances Townsend

Jared Cohen

Tom Pritzker

Peter Feaver

Michèle Flournoy

Richard Fontaine

Sarah Sewall

Politics & Government

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order that have emerged over the past several years and endeavor to provide practical recommendations for meeting these challenges.

The World Turned Upside Down: Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age (The Aspen Policy Book Series)

Condoleezza Rice

John Deutch

John Dowdy

David Shambaugh

David E. Sanger

Stephen Hadley

Christopher Kirchhoff

The Aspen Strategy Group

MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT

Stephen E. Biegun

Richard Danzig

Michael Froman

Anja Manuel

Carla Anne Robbins

Dov S. Zakheim

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War, all sides--Germany, Britain, and America--believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and utterly changed the course of history. Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war, just as British ministers and France's president also concluded that the time was right. The Road Less Traveled describes how tantalizingly close these far-sighted statesmen came to ending the war, saving millions of lives, and avoiding the total war that dimmed hopes for a better world. Theirs was a secret battle that is only now becoming fully understood, a story of civic courage, awful responsibility, and how some leaders rose to the occasion while others shrank from it or chased other ambitions. "Peace is on the floor waiting to be picked up!" pleaded the German ambassador to the United States. This book explains both the strategies and fumbles of people facing a great crossroads of history. The Road Less Traveled reveals one of the last great mysteries of the Great War: that it simply never should have lasted so long or cost so much.

The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing

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