Foreign Affairs Strategy Logic for American Statecraft [Paperback]

This book enables readers to think strategically about American foreign policy.Offers a systematic way of analyzing, creating, and critiquing foreign policy, helping readers think strategically about American foreign policy. It provides in-depth discussion of strategic concepts like national interests, objectives, threats, opportunities, power, and influence.Offers a systematic way of analyzing, creating, and critiquing foreign policy, helping readers think strategically about American foreign policy. It provides in-depth discussion of strategic concepts like national interests, objectives, threats, opportunities, power, and influence.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.1. Defining strategy; 2. The international strategic environment; 3. The domestic context for strategy; 4. Interests, threats, and opportunities; 5. Power and influence; 6. The instruments of state power; 7. Linking ends and means; 8. Evaluating courses of action; 9. American foreign affairs strategy today; Appendix A. Definitions of grand strategy, national security strategy, and statecraft; Appendix B. A Linear design for foreign affairs strategy.Terry Deibel argues that logic and strategy should provide the basis for American national security strategy. His book should bl'