Faces of Power

Seyom Brown is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University and an Affiliate of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has held senior research positions with the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the RAND Corporation. He is a widely published author in the fields of international relations and United States foreign policy.

[A]n analysis with difference-an important difference. Seyom Brown discusses United States policy from the perspective of how decision makers in the United States viewed their adversaries and the alternatives as those decision makers saw them... Well worth the effort of a careful reading. American Political Science Review

• Constancy and Change Since World War II Purpose and Power: An Overview The Truman Administration The Changing Essence of Power The Eisenhower Era The Shattering of Expectations The Implementation of Containment The Kennedy-Johnson Years A New Look for Less Expensive Power Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face The Carter Period Crises and Complications The Reagan Era: Realism or Romanticism? Enhancing the Arsenal of Power Prudence and Power in the Bush Years The Third World as a Primary Arena of Competition Enter Bill Clinton Kennedy's Cuban Crises Berlin Again The Vietnam Quagmire Avoiding Humiliation in Indochina The Insufficiency of Military Containment The Middle East and the Reassertion of American Competence Abroad The Anachronism of Conservative Realpolitik The Many Faces of Jimmy Carter Idealism as the Higher Realism The Camp David Accords: Carter's Finest Hour Hostages in Iran Afghanistan and the Reassertion of Geopolitical Imperatives High Purpose and Grand Strategy The Tension Between Foreign and Domestic Imperatives Middle Eastern Complexities: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terrorism, and Arms for Hostages Contradictions in Latin America The Reagan-Gorbachev Symbiosis Presiding Over the End of the Cold War George Bush and the Resort to Military Power The New World Order From Domestic Politician to Geopolitician