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Faces of Power : Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Obama.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (861 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538213
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Faces of PowerDDC classification:
  • 327.73
LOC classification:
  • E840 -- .B769 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- 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.
Summary: Seyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the presen.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- 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.

Seyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the presen.

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