American foreign policy since World War II
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American foreign policy since World War II
CQ Press, c2004
16th ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index: p. 394-427
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Placing the actions of U.S. political leaders and military forces in the context of long-standing patterns of behavior, Hook and Spanier discuss how the global role of the United States will define international order for generations to come. More than a decade after the Cold War, the United States remains the most powerful country in the world. But its "unipolar moment" has hardly produced the peace and global prosperity that were expected when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. To the contrary, the current period is the most volatile since World War II, and the United States today confronts a bewildering array of challenges to its world role. The foreign policies of President George W. Bush, designed to extend the period of U.S. primacy and "pre-empt" overseas challenges, have altered U.S. foreign relations with all other countries, friends and foes alike. In their thoroughly revised 16th edition of American Foreign Policy, Steven W.
Hook and John Spanier explore the conduct of American foreign policy at this crucial period in the nation's history by: closely examining the causes and implications of September 11thNo other event since World War II has so changed the face of American foreign policy, extending its security strategy beyond the system of states that defined international relations since the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The ongoing struggle with Iraq, meanwhile, reveals how conventional nation-states remain forces to be reckoned with. lluminating the real-world results of policy formulation with a focus on conductLong popular for its solid scholarship and readability, American Foreign Policy is an ideal core text for courses focusing on conduct, while a lively, informative supplement for courses emphasizing the process of American foreign policy. In either case, students gain a solid historical footing that is essential for understanding the relationship between the formulation of foreign policy and its real-world results.placing current problems in historic context As in previous editions, Hook and Spanier first explore the emergence of the United States as a global superpower after World War II and its subsequent struggle to "contain" communism throughout the world during the Cold War.
The authors then focus on key regional struggles, balance of
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Maps and Featured FiguresPreface The American Approach to Foreign PolicyLearning from Experience The Volatile State System The American National StyleSelf-Doubts and Revisionist Histories From World War to Cold WarAmerican Wartime IllusionsThe Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign PolicySoviet Expansion after World War IIToward the Strategy of Containment Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine Containment: From Theory to Practice New Economic and Military Structures Reviving the Western European Allies Confronting Revolution in East AsiaDomestic Pressures for a Global CrusadeNuclear Strategy and the "Balance of Terror" Developing Countries in the Crossfire Obstacles to Political and Economic Development Clashing Models of Economic Development Regional Conflicts in Africa and the Middle EastU.S. Policy toward Latin America Superpower Confrontation in Cuba Vietnam and the Cost of Containment Ejection of the French from VietnamThe "Domino Theory" and U.S. InterventionThe Perils of Incrementalism The Misconduct of Guerrilla Warfare Disengagement from VietnamCongress versus the "Imperial Presidency" The Era of Superpower DetenteManaging the Superpower RivalryArms Control as the Centerpiece of DetenteThe Erosion of U.S. AlliancesNew Military Flashpoints Disillusionment with Detente Jimmy Carter and World-Order Politics Recognizing Global Interdependence A Focus on North-South RelationsCarter's Middle East BreakthroughThe Collapse of Carter's Foreign Policy Lessons of World-Order Politics The Revival of Superpower Confrontation Reagan's Rhetorical Offensive Expanding U.S. Military Forces"Rollback" in Developing Countries Alliance Politics in the Late Cold WarFrom Confrontation to Conciliation The End of the Cold WarBush's Management of the Soviet CollapseEndgame: The Collapse of the CoreReasons for the Soviet Collapse: Contending ArgumentsA Final Appraisal America's "Unipolar Moment"Great Expectations after the Cold WarRevived Debates about America's World RoleClinton's Embrace of "Geoeconomics"Promoting Democracy and Sustainable Development Domestic Challenges to Clinton's Foreign Policy Old Tensions in a New OrderSources of Global Fragmentation War and Peace in the Middle EastThe Plight of "Failed States"Nuclear Brinkmanship in South Asia Lessons from the Regional Crises The Shifting European Landscape Western Europe: From Community to UnionJump-Starting Democracy in Eastern EuropeNATO's Endurance after the Cold War"Ethnic Cleansing" in the BalkansU.S.-Russian Relations under Stress America under FireStrains in the Unipolar OrderTerror in the Morning SkyWaging War against TerrorismA Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption A World of TroubleAn Economic Boom Gone Bust Challenges to the "Washington Consensus"Renewed Hostilities against IraqNorth Korea's Nuclear BreakoutGlobal Orders and American Power
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