Foreign Affairs & Policy
More than 200 years ago, the first Presidential cabinet department, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established by the Congress. Later, the name was changed to the Department of State. To highlight the work of the U.S. Department of State and other Federal agencies in the area of international affairs, the U.S. Government Printing Office offers for sale a special collection of publications designed for those interested in finding success in the inter-governmental relations and foreign policy.
Best Selling Foreign Affairs & Policy Publications
Influence Without Boots on the Ground: Seaborne Crisis Response
By: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval War College
GPO Stock # 008-046-00279-7 ISBN: 9781935352037
Newport Paper 39. The monograph is an empirical analysis of crisis characteristics, actors, U.S. involvement, and outcomes, exploring the political use of naval forces during foreign-policy crises short of full-scale warfare.
Dr. Forster,...
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. XXVII, Iran, Iraq, 1973-1976
By: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian
GPO Stock # 044-000-02650-3 ISBN: 9780160902567
Documents U.S. policy towards Iran and Iraq from 1973 to 1976. The volume's six chapters are divided into two chronological sections. The first section documents the increasingly close political, economic, and strategic relationship, which...
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
By: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Intelligence Council
GPO Stock # 041-015-00287-2 ISBN: 9780160915437
Global megatrends for the next 20 years and how they will affect the United States.
This is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about possible futures and their...
Council of War: A History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1942-1991 (ePub eBook)
By: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
GPO Stock # 999-000-44449-8 ISBN: 9780160915680
The history of the Joint Chief of Staff parallels the emergence of the United States in a great-power role and the growing demands that those responsibilities placed on American policymakers and military planners.
This narrative...
Foreign Consular Offices in the United States, Spring/Summer 2007 (eBook)
By: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/CA, Office of the Chief of Protocol/S-CPR
GPO Stock # 999-000-44448-5 ISBN: 9780160876158
Contains a complete and official listing of the foreign consular offices in the United States, and recognized consular officers. Designed with attention to the requirements of government agencies State tax officials, international trade...
Faith and Hope in a War-Torn Land: The US Army Chaplaincy in the Balkans, 1995-2005 (eBook)
By: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army, Combat Studies Institute
GPO Stock # 999-000-44448-2 ISBN: 9780160872792
Chaplain Lawson's initial historical review of the Balkans provides the setting to help one understand what led to America's involvement in the region. He deftly works his way through the key points of a confusing history that ultimately leads to...
Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency (eBook)
By: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Naval War College
GPO Stock # 999-000-44446-9 ISBN: 9780160866999
Contains a discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels...
Advice for Advisors: Suggestions and Observations From Lawrence to the Present (eBook)
By: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army, Combat Studies Institute
GPO Stock # 999-000-44445-4 ISBN: 9780160869242
This anthology presents 14 insightful, personal accounts from those who have advised foreign armies in various times and places over the last 100 years. The articles are from past and present advisors and are presented without editing or...
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (eBook)
By: Peace Corps
GPO Stock # 999-000-44445-0 ISBN: 9780160869181
Prepared in honor of the 45th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this collection of autobiographical reminiscences by 28 former Peace Corps volunteers recount the unique experience of being a Peace Corps Volunteer from a first-person perspective....
Rethinking a Middle East in Transition (ePub eBook)
By: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps/USMC, U.S. Marine Corps University Press
GPO Stock # 999-000-44442-1 ISBN: 9780160915468
Presents the opinions of an array of experts on the region, drawn from their presentations at the Middle East Institute’s 64th Annual Conference in November 2010, on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution. Topics include the Arab-Israeli peace process...


















