American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of World Leadership: Power, Principle, and the Constitutionprovides an insider’s account of U.S. foreign policy that explores its underlying and driving constitutional principles.  The book focuses on the fundamentals of foreign policy: its theory, historical evolution, institutions, and instruments of power.  Among the instruments examined in depth are America’s uses of diplomacy, trade, aid, war-making, moral suasion, spying, and covert action.  It also shows how the personalities of people in high office can influence foreign policy.  Contemporary issues—including global terrorism, nuclear weapons proliferation, global environmental degradation, world population presses, and immigration issues—are addressed throughout.

“American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of World Leadership provides a unique perspective on U.S. foreign policy, emphasizing the constitutional issues that emerge during the foreign policy process in an accessible and clearly written manner,” said John G. Oates, a foreign policy specialist at Ohio State University.  The book sets the stage for the ongoing debate about how the United States ought to conduct itself as a world power in the twenty-first century.

Loch K. Johnson is a Regents and Meigs Professor in the Department of International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.  In 2012, he won the inaugural SEC Professor of the Year Award and, in 2014, the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association presented him with its “Distinguished Scholar” Prize.

American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of World Leadership: Power, Principle, and the Constitution
By Loch K. Johnson
Oxford University Press
Hardback: $80