Title: Thinking beyond Boundaries: Transnational Challenges to US Foreign Policy
Abstract:Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Challenges to US Foreign Policy Edited by Hugh Liebert, John Griswold & Isaiah Wilson, III Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2014 256 pages $24.95...Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Challenges to US Foreign Policy Edited by Hugh Liebert, John Griswold & Isaiah Wilson, III Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2014 256 pages $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thinking beyond Boundaries: Transnational Challenges to US Foreign Polly I is an edited work produced by Hugh Liebert, John Griswold, and Isaiah Wilson III--faculty linked to the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. All three of the editors are PhD-level scholars presently, or previously, teaching in that Department, with two of them also serving as US Army officers. The work itself is primarily drawn from papers utilized at the 63rd Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA) held in November 2011 and subsequently modified based on participant feedback. The original intent of these papers--eighteen of which are showcased in this book and written by twenty-six authors primarily affiliated with the Academy--was meant to facilitate numerous small-group discussions among West Point cadets and a few hundred select undergraduate delegates from civilian universities attending SCUSA. The mission of these conferences is not only to bridge military and civilian divides but to help bond cohorts of America's future military, policy making, and civilian leaders by looking at real world US foreign policy issues and producing collaborative policy recommendations (based on each table grouping theme). Along with these showcased papers, the work also includes a contributor listing, foreword, acknowledgements, introduction, conclusion, epilogue, and index. The book is divided into three parts: tracing domestic issues in US foreign policy; distinguishing regional dynamics in US foreign policy; and turning global challenges into foreign-policy opportunities. Each part of the book is then divided into six chapters, each with a theme and specific title. These themes as they relate to transnational challenges--which together may result in compound security dilemmas (220)--are presented as follows. Part I includes institutions and US foreign policy, US foreign policymaking, federalism and education policy, federalism and immigration policy, thinking beyond civil-military boundaries, America's wars. Part II contains China, Middle East, South and Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Part III is composed of cyberspace, foreign aid, proliferation, international political economy, the environment, and strategic resources. …Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-06-22
Language: en
Type: article
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