Argues that the decline of America is inevitable, examines the efforts of the past four administrations to deal with this decline, and suggests that we must learn to accept our economic and social interdependence with the Third World

Presents a history of American foreign policy focusing on four 'schools' of thought, the Hamiltonian, the Jeffersonian, the Jacksonian, and the Wilsonian. (view table of contents)

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An authority on foreign affairs takes a timely and incisive look at the foreign policy of the Bush administration and how it differs from America's historic approach to global issues, analyzing its repercussions both at home and abroad and presenting a definitive plan for the steps that the U.S. must take before the war on terror spins out of control. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Argues that the most important story in world history in the last 400 years is the birth, rise and dominance of a global political and economic system resting first on the power of Britain and now on the United States. This work explores why that system rose to dominate the world and where this global system is taking us.