See more of this title: Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century

In a timely examination of America's position in the world today, Kissinger delves into the traditional issues of U.S. relations with Russia, China, and Europe, as well as concerns about globalization, free trade, U.S. military involvement abroad, and the endangered environment.

In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, at once far-seeing and brilliantly readable, America's most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in this new millennium. In seven accessible chapters, "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?" provides a crystalline assessment of how the United States' ascendancy as the world's dominant presence in the twentieth century may be effectively reconciled with the urgent need in the twenty-first century to achieve a bold new world order. With a new Afterword by the author that addresses the situation in the aftermath of September 11, "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?" asks and answers the most pressing questions of our nation today.