Boxes

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