The Clinton Doctrine is not an official government statement but an interpretation made by experts of the main priorities in the foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration in the United States,1993–2001.
In international relations,power is defined in several different ways. Material definitions of state power emphasize economic and military power. Other definitions of power emphasize the ability to structure and constitute the nature of social relations between actors. Power is an attribute of particular actors in their interactions,as well as a social process that constitutes the social identities and capacities of actors.
A United States presidential doctrine comprises the key goals,attitudes,or stances for United States foreign affairs outlined by a president. Most presidential doctrines are related to the Cold War. Though many U.S. presidents had themes related to their handling of foreign policy,the term doctrine generally applies to presidents such as James Monroe,Harry S. Truman,Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan,all of whom had doctrines which more completely characterized their foreign policy.
Grand strategy or high strategy is a state's strategy of how means can be used to advance and achieve national interests in the long-term. Issues of grand strategy typically include the choice of military doctrine,force structure and alliances,as well as economic relations,diplomatic behavior,and methods to extract or mobilize resources.
John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
Walter Russell Mead is an American academic. He is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He was also the editor-at-large of The American Interest magazine. Mead is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal,a scholar at the Hudson Institute,and a book reviewer for Foreign Affairs,the bimonthly foreign policy journal published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
David E. Sanger is an American journalist who is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times,writing since 1982,covering foreign policy,globalization,nuclear proliferation,and the presidency.
This is an English language bibliography of scholarly books and articles on the Cold War. Because of the extent of the Cold War,the conflict is well documented.
The Chinese Century is a neologism suggesting that the 21st century may be geoeconomically or geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China,similar to how the "American Century" refers to the 20th century and the "British Century" to the 19th. The phrase is used particularly in association with the idea that the economy of China may overtake the economy of the United States to be the largest in the world. A similar term is China's rise or rise of China.
Randall L. Schweller is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University,where he has taught since 1994. He is a current member of the International Security editorial board and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Security Studies.
Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,D.C. He is also the chairman of the Board of Editors for the Texas National Security Review.
In international relations,the term smart power refers to the combination of hard power and soft power strategies. It is defined by the Center for Strategic and International Studies as "an approach that underscores the necessity of a strong military,but also invests heavily in alliances,partnerships,and institutions of all levels to expand one's influence and establish legitimacy of one's action."
Michael Paul Pillsbury is a foreign policy strategist,author,and former public official in the United States. He was appointed in December 2020 to be the chair of the Defense Policy Board at the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also a senior fellow for China strategy at The Heritage Foundation and has been director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in Washington,D.C.,since 2014. Before Hudson,he held various postings in the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Senate. He has been called a "China-hawk",and an "architect" of Trump's policy towards China. In 2018,he was described by Donald Trump as the leading authority on the country.
Full spectrum diplomacy is a combination of traditional,government-to-government diplomacy with the many components of public diplomacy as well as the integration of these two functions with other instruments of statecraft. The term was coined by John Lenczowski,founder and president of The Institute of World Politics in Washington,D.C. in his book Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy:Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy which was released in May,2011.
The Thucydides Trap,or Thucydides' Trap,is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon. The term exploded in popularity in 2015 and primarily applies to analysis of China–United States relations.
A Second Cold War,Cold War II,or the New Cold War has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century between usually,on one side,the United States and,on the other,either China or Russia—the successor state of the Soviet Union,which led the Eastern Bloc during the original Cold War.
The History of Indian foreign policy refers to the foreign relations of modern India post-independence,that is the Dominion of India (from 1947 to 1950) and the Republic of India (from 1950 onwards).
In political science,triangular diplomacy is a foreign policy of the United States,developed during the Vietnam War (1955–1975) by Henry Kissinger,as a means to manage relations between the contesting communist powers,the Soviet Union and China. Connecting heavily with the correlating policy of linkage,the policy was intended to exploit the ongoing rivalry between the two Communist powers,as a means to strengthen American hegemony and diplomatic interest.
Rush Doshi is an American political scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He served at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.
Michael Beckley is an American political scientist currently serving as Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute,associate professor of political science at Tufts University,and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His research focuses on great-power competition,US-China relations,alliance building,and US defense policy in East Asia.
