A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. George C. Herring tells a story of stunning successes and...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here, George C. Herring uses foreign relations as t...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here, George C. Herring uses foreign relations as t...(展开全部)

The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in Americ...(展开全部)

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the vibrant story of American diplomacy. Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; t...(展开全部)

Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other r...(展开全部)

史蒂文·胡克（Steven W. Hook） 美国肯特州立大学政治系教授。国际研究协会外交政策分会、美国政治科学协会前会长。著有《美国对外政策：世界权力的悖论》《国家利益与对外援助》等书。其文章常见于《世界政治》《国家研究季刊》等杂志上。 约翰·斯帕尼尔（John Spanier） 耶鲁大学博士。最早从事美国战后外交政策研究的权威专家。自1957年伊始，先后在佛罗里达大学、美国国务院外交学院、美国海军战争学院等数所军事院校任教。著有《美国外交政策是如何制定的》《变革年代的世界政治》等书。

史蒂文·胡克（Steven W. Hook） 美国肯特州立大学政治系教授。国际研究协会外交政策分会、美国政治科学协会前会长。著有《美国对外政策：世界权力的悖论》《国家利益与对外援助》等书。其文章常见于《世界政治》《国家研究季刊》等杂志上。 约翰·斯帕尼尔（John Spanier） 耶鲁大学博士。最早从事美国战后外交政策研究的权威专家。自1957年伊始，先后在佛罗里达大学、美国国务院外交学院、美国海军战争学院等数所军事院校任教。著有《美国外交政策是如何制定的》《变革年代的世界政治》等书。

A detailed guide to one of the world's most thrilling jobs. For anyone with the will to become a U.S. naval aviator, the future begins now. Marine fighter pilot and combat veteran Jay Stout shows us just what it takes to be a U.S. naval aviator in the twenty-first century, conducting us through every step of training as these dedicated, everyday heroes prepare for tomorrow's th...(展开全部)

The United States–Mexico border is neither the United States nor Mexico; it is rather a "third country," ten miles wide and two thousand miles long, that lies in between. This borderland, split by the Rio Grande and the border fence, is a place of transience and crossings—of people and goods as well as of ideas and beliefs. Noted photo-journalist Alex Webb has spent decades cov...(展开全部)