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From Berlin to Baghdad : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World.
Containing Communism was the primary goal of American foreign policy for four decades, allowing generations of political leaders to build consensus atop a universally accepted foundation. From Berlin to Baghdad dissects numerous attempts, after communism's collapse, to devise a new grand strate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beyond the Cold War?; Great Expectations?; Beyond Containment?; The Tiananmen Interlude; First Steps; Berlin and Beyond; Demise of the Old Order; Claiming Victory; 2. Peace Elusive; Invading Panama; A Bad Lesson; Into the Storm; Give War a Chance; Aftermath; The Debate Takes Shape; 3. The Search for Order; Starting Anew; Catchphrase Diplomacy; The Pragmatists Object; What New World Order?; Hegemony and Its Discontents; 4. The Successor to Containment; The Politics of Human Rights.
- Carter Redux?The Logic of Enlargement; Opening Moves; Unassertive Multilateralism; Refining Enlargement; 5. Unmaking Enlargement; Nation Building; Blinksmanship; The Wages of Free Trade; After NAFTA; 6. Whither Foreign Policy?; First Moves in East Asia; Reversing Course; European Diplomacy; Skill or Luck?; Clinton and the Middle East; Paradigm Lost; 7. Post-Bumper Sticker Diplomacy; Beyond Catchphrases; European Insecurity; War for the Alliance; Peacemaker in Chief; Doing Everything; 8. The Politics of Foreign Policy; Rights and Wrongs; The Post-Post-Cold War World; A War on Terrorism?
- Unilateralism AscendantUnmaking Foreign Policy; The Shrinking President; 9. Full Circle; New President, Same Problems; Watershed; Any Terrorist, Any Place; Selling the War on Terror; Shaping a Strategy; The War on Terror Unfolds; 10. Waging the War on Terror; Morality and Myopia; With Friends Like These . . .; Shifting Priorities?; On to Baghdad; Preemption and Its Consequences; The War on Recession; Terror-Baiting; Homeland Security and Civil Liberties; The War on Terror Resilient; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.