TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Seyom TI - Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Obama SN - 9780231538213 AV - E840 -- .B769 2015eb U1 - 327.73 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - Seyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the presen UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1912258 ER -