Why are there so many who want to establish friendship with the United States of America? And why are most of them hostile to the United States of America itself? Is it because America influences some, or because it does not want to deal with some and not everyone?! The whole point of this duality lies in the unique duality that America lives in in the current era: a republic in the clothes of an empire, and an empire that sometimes remembers that it is a republic. America believes that there is no one who continues to be hostile to it or to be friends with it. The book presents this wide-ranging panorama of policy lessons and methods for dealing realistically with a country that is an undisputed empire that controls the distribution of the international balance of weight in all parts of the world. It coaxes parties with delicious carrots. The lure and the tempting scene...and waving at other parties a thick, heavy stick that cannot be tolerated or confronted...how does America succeed in this?!