Boxes
Box 1.1
National Security versus Foreign Policy
Box 1.2
President Obama’s Libya Intervention
Box 1.3
Models of Foreign and National Security Policymaking
Box 2.1
The “Black Box” of Decision-Making
Box 2.2
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Box 2.3
The May Group
Box 2.4
Guidance to NSC Staff: Where FPA Intersects with the Policy World
Box 3.1
“Policy Hill”
Box 3.2
The National Security Council,
c
. 2018
Box 3.3
Donald Rumsfeld’s Assessment of the NSC’s Role in 1975
Box 3.4
Imitation is the Sincerest Form …
Box 3.5
Hotlines around the World
Box 4.1
Donald Trump and the Personified State
Box 4.2
Choice of Roles
Box 4.3
Interpreting Intelligence in the Run-Up to the War in Iraq
Box 4.4
Scripts and Analogies: Avoiding Munichs, Falling Dominos, and No More Vietnams
Box 4.5
Dual-Track Thinking and the Ultimatum Game
Box 5.1
Reforming the CIA?
Box 5.2
A Clash of Organizations: State versus Treasury
Box 5.3
The Mission Goes On … US Military Personnel in Niger
Box 6.1
The Origins of Miles’ Law
Box 6.2
The Mandarin Algorithm of Power
Box 6.3
Iraq and Afghan Surges: Initial Positions and End Results
Box 7.1
Kremlinology at Mar-a-Lago
Box 7.2
The Unhappy Tenure of General Jones
Box 7.3
The Reagan “Troika”
Box 7.4
Access and “Tiered Rap Sessions” in the Second Term of the Obama Administration
Box 7.5
The Afternoon Wrap Walk
Box 7.6
The Policy Entrepreneur
Box 7.7
Kissinger, Kushner, and Cui Tiankai: A Back Channel between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
Box 8.1
Condi Rice and the Art of the Insider Memoir
Box 8.2
Fears of the Deep State
Box 8.3
Who Negotiates for the United States? Check Circular-175!
Box 8.4
Human Rights versus Counterterrorism
Box 8.5
Muddled and Mutable Roles for Undersecretaries
Box 8.6
“The Cardinal Richelieu” of Foggy Bottom
Box 8.7
Face Time and Top Cover
Box 9.1
Blocking an Ambassador …
Box 9.2
The War Powers Resolution
Box 9.3
Chicken Legs: The Most Important Issue in the US–Russia Relationship?
Box 9.4
The Iran Nuclear Deal … An Agreement Shaped by the Two-Level Game
Box 9.5
The Death Penalty: A Domestic Issue with International Ramifications
Box 9.6
The Next Hitler … And the Victorious Little War
Box 9.7
“Operation Restore Hope” and the “Black Hawk Down” Effect
Box 9.8
The Constitutionality of Lobbying
Box 9.9
How Does One Join the “Foreign Policy Community”?
Box 9.10
The Surge of Ideas
Box 9.11
The CNN Effect
Box 10.1
American Exceptionalism and Foreign Policy
Box 10.2
What is a Democracy?
Box 10.3
Harnessing Middlepowermanship at the G20
Box 10.4
Questions to Adapt American FPA Concepts for Other Countries
Box 10.5
Palace Politics and the Seizure of Crimea
Box 10.6
Spoiling a Summit: Himalayan Organizational Processes?