Seyom Brown The Faces Of Power Summary

Seyom Brown, The Faces of Power Seyom Brown, former senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, and the Harvard Universty’s Belfer Center. He has worked in the Department of State and the Department of Defense. He has taught in he has taught in countless universities such as Harvard University, Columbia University, and Brandeis University. His goal was to create discern assumptions of policymakers about international interests and to look at the power of which the US had in order to protect and further these interests. He also wished to connect these views that he had so he could be able to project and show them

He also discusses the relations of different countries, our ties to nations, like Israel and Jordan for example. This includes the ties America has made for economic reasons, which Seyom points out is another part of the power America holds along with our military might. What began as a huge involvement over the power America holds through military power, quickly expanded into branches of foreign policy, economics, and diplomacy through each president’s administration. Cleary, you can tell that the largest focus is on military prowess, as many of the events from the this time involved conflict somewhere. However, Seyom was very good at not only putting focus on the president himself, but also the people that worked alongside the president. Dulles, secretary of state for Eisenhower was actually more talked about in the Eisenhower chapter than Eisenhower himself. Which, was largely due to the fact that he had a large presence in foreign diplomacy, and if you read through the chapter, he was given more authority and therefore had a larger spotlight. Which was also seen with Henry Kissenger. Never-the-less, Brown was able to showcase numerous people and their effects during the timeline. Of course, many of those people were in a position of authority in the

He did not stray very far from his points, and he did not mix events that occurred along with the other. He kept it very manageable for the reader to follow along and know the direct effects of an event. There was no skimping of information with Brown, and he managed to put in the right amount of information without being overbearing. He also managed to make historic events, like many of the conflicts in the middle east, or our relations with the Soviet Union, quite clear to the reader. It would be imperative for him to do so, because his goal was to be able to have students and scholars also be able to use his writings as a learning method, and a lack of organization or clearity would defeat the purpose entirely. While Brown did make everything as clear as he could, it shouldn’t be your only source of information on such events. At times while I read through the chapters, specifically during the Carter and Reagan administration chapters, there was a lot of information dealing with the Middle East that was immensely complicated. Of course I understood what Brown was trying to convey, or t least understood what was going on, but it could be