This authoritative work provides students with the tools to explore the wide range of factors that shape American foreign policy, as well as a fact-based approach to examining partisan debates about national security priorities, economic prosperity, and human rights.

The book distills a complex topic into 30 essential questions about American foreign policy. Each question is answered in the affirmative or the negative. The answer is then explained in greater factual detail, presenting opposing points of view on the specific topic covered by each question. Primary sources, governmental actors, and top experts in the field are the foundations of this fact-checking exercise. Rather than a specific ideological approach to the topic, this book presents the facts and the arguments surrounding the specifics of American foreign policy.

Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. They do so to give readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions-and confirming the factual validity of other assertions-that have gained traction in America's political and cultural discourse.