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ISBN 10: 0521692776
ISBN 13: 978-0521692779
Author: Terry Deibel
This is a book on how to think – strategically – about foreign policy. Focusing on the American experience, it defines the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, informational, economic, and military instruments of state power. Based on a graphic framework that models strategic interrelationships, the book is illustrated with numerous examples from recent American statecraft. It ends with an extended critique of current American foreign policy and a detailed outline of an alternative strategy better suited to the problems of the 21st century.
Foreign Affairs Strategy Logic for American Statecraft 1st Table of contents:
1 Introduction: Defining Strategy
What Is Strategy?
From Military Strategy to National Security Strategy
The Many Meanings of Strategy
The Characteristics of Foreign Affairs Strategy
1. Comprehensive
2. Long-Range
3. Means-Sensitive
4. Purposeful
5. Coherent
6. Interactive
Thinking about Foreign Affairs Strategy
Part I. Assess
2 The International Strategic Environment
Actors, System, and Structure
How the World Works
Geopolitics and the Balance of Power
Newton, Darwin, and Chaos
Interdependence, Globalization, and the Information Revolution
Evaluating Globalization
Internal Pressures
The Role of Ideas
Into the Subconscious
3 The Domestic Context for Strategy
Americans and Strategy
Splits and Shifts in Public Opinion
Stability and Structure in Public Opinion
Opinion, Parties, and Polarization
Strategy Begins at Home
The Domestic Context Since 9/11
The Role of Contextual Assumptions
Part II. Analyze
4 Interests, Threats, and Opportunities
Categories of Interest
Defining Interests
Values and Standards of Judgment
Prioritizing Interests
Threats, Challenges, and Resistance
Interests and Threats
Threat-Based versus Opportunity-Based Strategies
5 Power and Influence
Power as Control over Resources
Latent or Potential Power
Actual or Mobilized Power
Absolute Power versus Relative Power
The Economics of American Power
Absolute Wealth and Relative Power
Concrete Power versus Perceptual Power
Power and American Strategy
Part III. Plan
6 The Instruments of State Power
Political Instruments: Negotiation
Political Instruments: International Organization
Political Instruments: International Law
Political Instruments: Alliances
Information Instruments: Public Diplomacy
Economic Instruments: Trade and Finance
Economic Instruments: Foreign Aid
Economic Instruments: Sanctions
Military Instruments: Persuasive Use of Force
Conclusion: Instrument Priorities
7 Linking Ends and Means
Influence Attempts, Impacts, and Success
A Spectrum of Generic Strategies
Designing a Foreign Affairs Strategy
1. ENDS: Draw up a Preliminary List of Objectives
2. MEANS: Choose Instruments to Accomplish Objectives
3. STATECRAFT: Specify Ways of Using Instruments
Conditionality
Secrecy
Breadth
Number
Order
8 Evaluating Courses of Action
4. IMPACT: Estimate How Courses of Action (COAs) Will Affect Recipients
5. SUCCESS: Estimate How Targets Will React
6. COST: Evaluate Whether the Strategy Is Worth Its Cost
7. RISK: Consider that Things May Not Go As Planned
8. COHERENCE: Check Internal and External Compatibility of Ends, Means, and Ways
The Uses of Foreign Affairs Strategy
9 Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today
Modeling the Bush National Security Strategy
Critiquing the Bush Strategy
Assessing Today’s Interests, Threats, and Opportunities
Domestic Support, Power, and Influence
Assembling Courses of Action
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