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Foreign Politics of the USA

The world's policeman or splendid isolation – the role of the US on the world stage has historically shifted between extremes. With each new administration it might take yet another turn. Learn from these summaries what strategies experts prescribe for todays's geopolitical challenges or how they view the current dealings between the US and their partners or adversaries.

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The Economic Weapon
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Nicholas Mulder
Yale UP, 2022
9 Book

The United States vs. China
The Quest for Global Economic Leadership
C. Fred Bergsten
Polity Press, 2022
Book

A World in Disarray
American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Article

China Deserves Donald Trump
It took a human wrecking ball to get China’s attention.
Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times, 2019
9 Article

How to Avoid an Avoidable War
Ten Questions About the New US-China Strategy
Kevin Rudd
Foreign Affairs, 2018
8 Book

The Sovereignty Wars
Reconciling America with the World
Stewart Patrick
Brookings Institution, 2017
7 Article

With the US-China Trade War on Pause, What Will China's Economy Look Like in 2019?
Northern Finance Institute
China Finance 40 Forum, 2018
8 Article

What’s the Worst Case Scenario in the US–China Trade War?
Ning Nanshan
ZH Island WeChat Wemedia Account , 2018
7 Article

Confronting Iran
The Trump Administration’s Strategy
Michael R. Pompeo
Foreign Affairs, 2018
8 Article

How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
Nicolas Niarchos
The New Yorker, 2018
7 Book

Turkey and the West
Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance
Kemal Kirisci
Brookings Institution Press, 2017
9 Book

That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Michael Mandelbaum and Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2011