Faces of power : constancy and change in United States foreign policy from Truman to Obama

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Faces of power : constancy and change in United States foreign policy from Truman to Obama

Seyom Brown

Columbia University Press, c2015

3rd ed

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes index

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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 the atomic bomb; Eisenhower and George W. Bush to be more immersed in the details of policy formulation and implementation than generally believed; Reagan to be more invested in changing his worldview while in office than any previous president; and Obama to have modeled his military exit from Iraq and Afghanistan more closely to Nixon and Kissinger's exit strategy from Vietnam than he would like to admit. Brown's analyses of Obama's policies for countering terrorist threats at home and abroad, dealing with unprecedented upheavals in the Middle East, preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and containing new territorial expansion by China and Russia reinforce the book's "constancy and change" theme, which shows that serving the interests of the most powerful country in the world transforms the Oval Office's occupant more than its occupant can transform the world. Praise for previous editions: "Systematic and informative...[Brown] has a gift for clear analysis that makes his book a useful contribution to the Cold War literature."-The Journal of American History "Comprehensive and clear...thorough without ever becoming dull, providing detailed analysis of decisions while never neglecting the environment within which they are made."-International Affairs "An excellent reference for those interested in United States foreign policy...Well-written and well-researched, it is appropriate for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses."-International Journal "An analysis with difference-an important difference. Seyom Brown discusses United States policy from the perspective of how decision makers in the United States viewed their adversaries and the alternatives as those decision makers saw them...Well worth the effort of a careful reading."-American Political Science Review

目次

Preface Introduction: Constancy and Change Since WWII Part I. The Truman Administration 1. The Shattering of Expectations 2. Implementing Containment Part II. The Eisenhower Era 3. A New Look for Less Expensive Power 4. Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face 5. Crises and Complications Part III. The Kennedy-Johnson Years 6. Enhancing the Arsenal of Power 7. The Third World as a Primary Arena of Competition 8. Kennedy's Cuban Crises 9. Berlin Again 10. The Vietnam Quagmire Part IV. Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford 11. Avoiding Humiliation in Indochina 12. The Insufficiency of Military Containment 13. The Middle East and the Reassertion of American Competence Abroad 14. The Anachronism of Conservative Realpolitik Part V. The Carter Period 15. The Many Faces of Jimmy Carter 16. The Fusion of Realism and Idealism 17. The Camp David Accords: Carter's Finest Hour 18. Iran and Afghanistan: Carter's Struggles to Salvage Containment Part VI. The Reagan Era-Realism or Romanticism? 19. High Purpose and Grand Strategy 20. The Tension Between Foreign and Domestic Imperatives 21. Middle East Complexities, 1981-1989: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terrorism, and Arms for Hostages 22. Contradictions in Latin America 23. The Reagan-Gorbachev Symbiosis Part VII. Prudential Statecraft with George Herbert Walker Bush 24. Presiding Over the End of the Cold War 25. The Resort to Military Power 26. The New World Order Part VIII. Clinton's Globalism 27. From Domestic Politician to Geopolitician 28. Opportunities and Frustrations in the Middle East 29. Leaving Somalia and Leaving Rwanda Alone 30. Getting Tough with Saddam and Osama 31. Into Haiti and the Balkans: The Responsibility to Protect Part IX. The Freedom Agenda of George W. Bush 32. Neoconservatives Seize the Day 33. 9/11, the War on Terror, and a New Strategic Doctrine 34. From Containment to Forcible Regime Change: Afghanistan and Iraq 35. National Security and Civil Liberties Part X. Obama's Universalism Versus a Still-Fragmented World 36. Engaging the World 37. Ending Two Wars 38. Counterterrorism and Human Rights 39. Ambivalence in Dealing with Upheavals in the Arab World Epilogue Notes Index

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