US Foreign Polict Since 1945 is an essential and concise introduction to postwar US foreign policy. The authors explore the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment.

Readers will find challenging and thought-provoking analysis of the crucial issues, including:

* containment

*Presidential war powers

*realism and idealism

*the Cuban missle crisis

*Viet Nam, Panama, Yugoslavia and Kosovo

*the New World Order

*US interventionism and exit strategies