Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy by Robert Kagan and William Kristol

This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000. Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay.

Table of Contents

Introduction: National Interest and Global Responsibility

The Great Divide: American Internationalism and its Opponents

China: The Challenge of a Rising Power

Russia: The Challenge of a Failing Power

Iraq: Saddam Unbound

Iran: Fundamentalism and Reform

North Korea: Beyond Appeasement

Europe and NATO: Saving the Alliance

Asian Allies: True Strategic Partners

Israel and the "Peace Process"

The Decline of America's Armed Forces

Weapons Proliferation and Missile Defense: The Strategic Case

Morality, Character and American Foreign Policy

Statesmanship in the New Century

Strength and Will: A Historical Perspective

About the Authors

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