International Relations in Perspective

Henry R. Nau has combined an outstanding career in the academic world with two opportunities to serve at the highest levels of the U.S. government. He brings this experience to bear in this textbook, integrating theory and practice with unprecedented clarity for understanding historical and contemporary issues in world affairs. Nau is currently professor of political science and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He taught previously at Williams College and held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Stanford University, and Columbia University. From 1977 to 1981, Nau served on the Board of Editors of the journal International Organization. He has received research grants from, among others, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Century Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Hoover Institution, the Rumsfeld Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Nau served from 1975 to 1977 as special assistant to the undersecretary for economic affairs, Charles Robinson, in the U.S. Department of State. In that capacity he worked in the office of the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to organize a major conference on science, technology, and foreign policy. For his service, he was awarded the State Department's Superior Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983 Nau served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council responsible for international economic affairs. He was President Reagan's White House aide, or Sherpa, for the annual G7 economic summits in Ottawa (1981), Versailles (1982), and Williamsburg (1983), and for the special summit with developing countries in Cancun (1982). At those summits, the United States led a revival of the world economy from the stagflation and resource shortages of the 1970s to thirty years of 3+ percent growth per year, promoting the so-called Washington Consensus (originating in the Williamsburg Summit Communique) of lower inflation, freer markets and open trade. Nau wrote an account of these early years in The Myth of America's Decline (see below). Outside government, Nau continued his public service. From 1984 to 1990 he served on the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Investment and as the U.S. member of the UN Committee for Development Planning. From 1989 to 2016, he directed the U.S.-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, semiannual meetings among members of the U.S. Congress, the Japanese Diet, and the South Korean National Assembly. In 2016, the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Neck Ribbon with Gold Rays, the highest honor for academic leaders, in recognition of his work on this Exchange. From 1963 to 1965, Nau also served as a lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Nau's published books include, among others, Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan (Princeton University Press, 2013, and paperback with new preface, 2015); At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002); Trade and Security: U.S. Policies at Cross-Purposes (American Enterprise Institute, 1995); The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s (Oxford University Press, 1990); and National Politics and International Technology: Peaceful Nuclear Reactor Development in Western Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974). His most recent edited book is Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia, coedited with Deepa M. Ollapally (Oxford University Press, 2012). Most recent articles and chapters in edited books include "Democratic Globalism," National Interest, November/December 2018; "Trump's Conservative Internationalism," National Review, August 2017; "America's International Nationalism," American Interest, January/February 2017; "The Difference Reagan Made," Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2016-2017; "How Restraint Leads to War: The Real Danger of the Iran Deal," Commentary (July/August, 2015); "Ideas Have Consequences: The Cold War and Today," International Politics 48 (July/September 2011): 460-81; "No Alternative to 'Isms,'" International Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (June 2011): 487-91; "The 'Great Expansion': The Economic Legacy of Ronald Reagan," in Reagan's Legacy in a Transformed World, edited by Jeffrey L. Chidester and Paul Kengor (Harvard University Press, 2015); "Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom?," in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (Oxford University Press, 2008); and "Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat, Not Institutions or Values," in The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order, edited by Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse (Cornell University Press, 2008). For Nau's personal website, see www.henryrnau.com

The Dilemma of Scientific Man Japan, Asian-Pacific Security, and the Case for Analytical Eclecticism Chapter 1: How to Think About International Relations: Perspectives and Levels of Analysis The Realist Critique Realism and Complex Interdependence Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics Karl Marx Thoroughly Modern Marx: Lights. Camera. Action. Das Kapital. Now. The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations Chapter 2: Perspectives on World History: Change and Continuity Historical Reality vs. Neo-realist Theory The Fragmentation and Consolidation of International Systems Intervention and International Order Chapter 3: World War I: World on Fire The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment The July Crisis and the Outbreak of World War I Chapter 4: World War II: What Did War Happen Again? The 1930s and the Origins of the Second World War Selections from President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: A Study in Appearances and Realities Chapter 5: The Origins and End of the Cold War The Long Telegram Telegram from the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, to the Soviet Leadership Reagan, Gorbachev, and the Completion of Containment Deterrence and the End of the Cold War Chapter 6: From 11/9-9/11: The World of the 1990s The End of History? The Clash of Civilization? Great Power Politics in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 7: Terrorism and the World after 9/11 Feminist Perspectives on 9/11 How Baida Wanted to Die What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism Separatism's Final Country Chapter 8: History of Globalization: Mercantilism, Pax Britannica, and Pax Americana Dominance and Leadership in the International Economy: Exploitation, Public Goods, and Free Rides Economic Interdependence and National Security in Historical Perspective Chapter 9: How Globalization Works in Practice The "Magic" of the Market Selections from "Has Globalization Gone Too Far?" Chapter 10: Trade, Investment, and Finance: Engines of Growth The Economics of QWERTY Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis Chapter 11: Miracle and Missed Opportunity: Development in Asia and Latin America From Miracle to Crisis to Recovery: Lessons from Four Decades of East Asian Experience An Empty Revolution: The Unfilled Promises of Hugo Chavez Chapter 12: Foreign Aid and Domestic Governance: Development in Africa and the Middle East Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World: Concepts and Problematic Issues Is Africa's Economy at a Turning Point? The Making, and Unmaking, of a Child Soldier Chapter 13: Global Inequality, Imperialism, and Injustice: A Critical Theory Perspective Carmen Miranda on My Mind: International Politics of the Banana Dependent Capitalist Development in Latin America Chapter 14: World Environment: Population, Pollution and Pandemics Selection from "An Inconvenient Truth" Is Humanity Losing the Global Warming Debate? Chapter 15: Global Civil Society: Nonstate Actors and Basic Human Rights Selection from "A New World Order" Transitional Justice: Criminal Courts and Alternatives Chapter 16: Global Governance: International and Regional Institutions The Challenges of Global Governance Regional Orders Conclusion: Applying Perspectives and Levels of Analysis: The Case of the Democratic Peace The Kantian Peace in the Twenty-First Century