{"id":11511,"count":44,"description":"Unsurprisingly, given its preponderant weight politically and economically, the role of the US in global affairs enjoys a corresponding focus in our interviews and book recommendations on foreign policy and international relations.\r\n\r\nGideon Rose looks at US foreign policy<\/a> and A G Hopkins looks at American imperialism<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Foreign correspondent Stephen Glain discusses US militarism<\/a> and Lawrence Kaplan, columnist on the New Republic<\/em> looks at US intervention<\/a>.\u00a0 On US relations with specific countries and regions, Orville Schell, writer and activist focused on US-China relations, chooses his best books on China and the US<\/a>, Journalist and Middle East correspondent, Patrick Cockburn, looks at the Iraq war<\/a>, William LeoGrande chooses his best books on US relations with Latin America<\/a> and Harvard professor Stephen Walt looks at US-Israel relations<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOn the changing face of international relations and foreign policy, Ali Wayne, fellow at the RAND corporation, chooses his best books on the US\u2019s increasingly challenged position in world affairs<\/a>. \u00a0Joseph Nye, former dean of Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School, chooses his best books on global power<\/a>, taking up a similar theme. Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the New America think tank looks at 21st<\/sup> century foreign policy<\/a> and Jennifer M Harris, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at geoeconomics<\/a> and the deployment of US economic power, rather than its military might in international affairs.\r\n\r\nAt a more general level, Jeremy Greenstock, former UK representative for Iraq, chooses his best books on diplomacy<\/a>, Professor Charles Kupchan chooses his best on grand strategy<\/a> and Geoff Berridge discusses why we need diplomats<\/a>.\u00a0 Former UK diplomat, Mike Maclay, discusses the thrill of diplomacy<\/a>.\u00a0 Turning to the world of intelligence, Pulitzer prize winning author Tim Weiner discusses the US intelligence services<\/a> and Keith Jeffrey, author of the authorised history of MI6, talks about the UK intelligence services<\/a>.\u00a0 Professor Rory Cormac chooses his best books on covert action<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/politics-and-society\/foreign-policy-international-relations\/","name":"Foreign Policy & International Relations","slug":"foreign-policy-international-relations","taxonomy":"category","parent":6245,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6245"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11511"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11511"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}