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Faces of power : constancy and change in United States foreign policy from Truman to Obama /
Seyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the present challenges common assumptions about American presidents and their struggle with power and purpose. Brown shows Truman to be more anguished than he publicly revealed about the use of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Constancy and change since WWII
- The Truman administration. The shattering of expectations ; Implementing containment
- The Eisenhower era. A new look for less expensive power ; Waging peace : the Eisenhower face ; Crises and complications
- The Kennedy-Johnson years. Enhancing the arsenal of power ; The Third World as a primary arena of competition ; Kennedy's Cuban crises ; Berlin again ; The Vietnam quagmire
- Statecraft under Nixon and Ford. Avoiding humiliation in Indochina ; The insufficiency of military containment ; The Middle East and the reassertion of American competence abroad ; The anachronism of conservative realpolitik
- The Carter period. The many faces of Jimmy Carter ; The fusion of realism and idealism ; The Camp David accords : Carter's finest hour ; Iran and Afghanistan : Carter's struggles to salvage containment
- The Reagan era : realism or romanticism?. High purpose and grand strategy ; The tension between foreign and domestic imperatives ; Middle East complexities, 1981-1989 : the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism, and arms for hostages ; Contradictions in Latin America ; The Reagan-Gorbachev symbiosis
- Prudential statecraft with George Herbert Walker Bush. Presiding over the end of the Cold War ; The resort to military power ; The new world order
- Clinton's globalism. From domestic politician to geopolitician ; Opportunities and frustrations in the Middle East ; Leaving Somalia and leaving Rwanda alone ; Getting tough with Saddam and Osama ; Into Haiti and the Balkans : the responsibility to protect
- The freedom agenda of George W. Bush. Neoconservatives seize the day ; 9/11, the War on Terror, and a new strategic doctrine ; From containment to forcible regime change : Afghanistan and Iraq ; National security and civil liberties
- Obama's universalism versus a still-fragmented world. Engaging the world ; Ending two wars ; Counterterrorism and human rights ; Ambivalence in dealing with upheavals in the Arab world.