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  1. See the National Democratic Institute for International
    Aff airs site at http://www.ndi.org and the International Republican
    Institute site at http://www.iri.org.

  2. Elizabeth Bumiller, Eric Schmitt, and Thom Shanker, “U.S.
    Sends Top Iranian Leader a Warning on Strait Threat,” New
    York Times, January 12, 2012, p. A1.

  3. Johanna Neuman and Megan K. Stack, “Americans’ Beirut
    Exodus Underway; Hundreds Are Evacuated by Ship and Heli-
    copter,” Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2006, p. A10. The Clinton
    administration resorted to cruise missile attacks fi ve times:
    three against Iraq (1993, 1996, 1998), one in 1995 against Bos-
    nian Serb forces in the former Yugoslavia, and one against tar-
    gets in Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998. James Mann, “Foreign
    Policy of the Cruise Missile,” Los Angeles Times, December 23,
    1998, p. 5.

  4. A comprehensive account of the Afghanistan invasion and its
    aftermath is in Barnett R. Rubin, “Saving Afghanistan,” For-
    eign Aff airs 86:1 (January/February, 2007): 57–78.

  5. United States International Trade Commission, Harmonized
    Tariff Schedule of the United States (2010), Revision 2, www
    .usitc.gov/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1002htsa.pdf (accessed
    9/14/10).

  6. Tyler Marshall, “Clinton to Nudge China on Rights Reform,
    Offi cials Say,” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1997, p. 7.

  7. Colum Lynch, “U.N. Backs Broader Sanctions on Tehran;
    Security Council Votes to Freeze Some Assets, Ban Arms
    Exports,” Washington Post, March 25, 2007, p. A1.

  8. William B. Quandt, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics
    (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1986).

  9. John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York:
    Penguin Press, 2005).

  10. U.S. Department of State, Treaties in Force, January 1, 2007,
    http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/treaties/2007/index.htm (accessed
    8/12/08).

  11. Lisa L. Martin, “The President and International Commit-
    ments: Treaties as Signaling Devices,” Presidential Studies
    Quarterly 35:3 (2005): 440–65.

  12. P. J. Huff stutter, “A Town Gives until It Hurts,” Los Angeles
    Times, November 7, 2003, p. A1.

  13. Pew Research Center, “Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence
    of Climate Change,” October 22, 2009, http://people-press
    .org/report/556/global-warming (accessed 2/17/10).

  14. Steven Erlanger, “Syrian Confl ict Poses the Risk of Wider
    Strife,” New York Times, February 12, 2012, p. A1.


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a. See the International Criminal Court site at http://www.icc-cpi.int/
home.html; for background on the ICC, see United Nations,
UN News Centre, “The International Criminal Court,” www
.un.org/News/facts/iccfact.htm.
b. International Criminal Court, “The States Parties to the
Rome  Statute,” June 1, 2008, http://hrw.org/campaigns/icc/
ratifi cations.htm.
c. Thom Shanker and James Dao, “U.S. Might Refuse New Peace
Duties without Immunity,” New York Times, July 3, 2002.


  1. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man,
    updated ed. (New York: Free Press, 2006).

  2. For a summary of American human rights policy, see John
    W. Dietrich, “U.S. Human Rights Policy in the Post–Cold
    War Era,” Political Science Quarterly 121: 2 (Summer, 2006):
    269–94.

  3. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the
    Remaking of World Order (New York: Free Press, 2002).

  4. Louis Fisher, Presidential War Power (Lawrence: University
    Press of Kansas, 2004).

  5. David Hoff man and David B. Ottaway, “Panel Drops Covert-
    Acts Notifi cation; In Compromise, Bush Pledges to Inform
    Hill in All but Rare Cases,” Washington Post, October 27,
    1989, p. A1.

  6. See especially Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), and
    Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008). For a discussion
    of these and related cases, see Dahlia Lithwick and Walter
    Dellinger, “A Supreme Court Conversation,” Slate, June 22,
    2007, http://www.slate.com/id/2168856/entry/2168959 (accessed
    7/4/08); and James Risen, “The Executive Power Awaiting the
    Next President,” New York Times, June 22, 2008.

  7. Dahlia Lithwick, “The Enemy Within,” Slate, June 12, 2008,
    http://www.slate.com/id/2193468 (accessed 8/12/08).

  8. Somini Sengupta, “As Musharraf ’s Woes Grow, Enter an
    Old Rival, Again,” New York Times, April 6, 2007, p. A3; Les-
    lie Wayne, “Airbus Seeks a Welcome in Alabama,” New York
    Times, June 19, 2007, p. C1.

  9. Andrew Jacobs, “China Angered by U.S. Lobbying on Rights,”
    New York Times, August 1, 2008.

  10. Steven R. Weisman, “U.S. and China Agree to Ease Foreign
    Investment,” New York Times, June 19, 2008.

  11. American Israel Public Aff airs Committee, “Legislation and
    Policy Update,” http://www.aipac.org/Legislation_and_Policy/
    default.asp (accessed 8/3/08).

  12. See Pew Research Center, “The U.S. Public’s Pro-Israel His-
    tory,” July 19, 2006, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/39/the-u.s.
    -publics-pro-israel-history (accessed 8/2/08).

  13. John Harwood, “War-Weary Public Wants Congress to Lead;
    Poll Shows Desire for Lawmakers to Set Policy Amid Grow-
    ing Dismay over Iraq, President Bush,” Wall Street Journal,
    December 14, 2006, p. A4; E. J. Dionne, “Slowly Sidling to
    Iraq’s Exit; Many GOP Candidates Part Company with Bush,”
    Washington Post, August 29, 2006, p. A15.

  14. “Public Wary of Military Intervention in Libya,” Pew Research
    Center, March 14, 2012, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1927/
    strong-opposition-us-involvement-libya-military-overcom-
    mitted (accessed 9/25/12).

  15. A directory of NGOs can be found at the Department of
    Public  Information site, Nongovernmental Organization
    Section, http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/asp/form.asp (accessed
    8/2/08).

  16. See Amnesty International, “The Secretive and Illegal U.S.
    Programme of Rendition,” April 5, 2006, http://www.amnesty.org/
    en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/secretive-and-illegal
    -us-programme-of-rendition-20060405 (accessed 8/12/08).

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