Product Description: A Call to Greatness: Challenging Our Next President examines how our next President can learn from the successes and failures of past Presidents to be an effective leader during a time of tremendous challenges at home and abroad. The present state of our union requires a creative reexamination of our national interests, a comprehensive vision, a leader with the ability to organize and marshal the best people and resources and a leader with the capacity to communicate this vision to our citizens and the world...read more

Product Description: In early 2000, the Center for the Study of the Presidency organized a group of eminent scholars to examine key cases of Presidential success and failure and the lessons learned. Leading presidential researchers and writers provided 76 case studies organized in nine broad subject areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1990, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been laying the groundwork for one of the most creative transitions in its history. Their rationale to provide for common defense against the threat of Soviet expansion has crumbled along with the USSR and NATO faces an uncertain future...read more

Presents an assessment of the current balance of forces in the world and puts forth a strategy for maintaining peace based on economic, technological, historical, and leadership considerations