The first systematic analysis of American proconsular leadership from the Spanish-American War to the present.

This book prompts debate by analyzing obstacles to effective public diplomacy, and offers a comprehensive vision of this critical dimension of statecraft, which without improvements will ill serve the nation in its ongoing efforts to ...

The Modern Prince anticipates—at times in startling fashion—the situation facing the Donald Trump administration in an ongoing political drama that has few precedents in the history of the republic.

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated ...

"The present volume, Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence in the Twenty-first Century, is the twenty-sixth in the Newport Papers monograph series, published since 1991 by the Naval War College Press.

In this brilliant examination of the management of national security over the past 40 years, a former officer of the National Security Council explores the creation of the NSC, its changing function, and its uses and misuses by presidents, ...

This book is a study of proconsulship, a form of delegated political-military leadership historically associated with the governance of large empires.