American foreign policy since World War II. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Hook, Steven W, 1959-; Spanier, John W
• Contents: Chapter 1 The American Approach to Foreign Policy; Learning from Experience; search tag=504The Roots of American Primacy; The American Sense of Destiny; Self-Doubts, Revisionism, and Social Construction; Part I: The Cold War; Chapter 2 From World War to Cold War; American Wartime Illusions; The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy; Soviet Expansion after World War II; The Strategy of Containment; Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine; Chapter 3 Containment: From Theory to Practice; New Economic and Military Structures; Reviving the Western European Allies; Confronting Revolution in East Asia; Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade; Eisenhower’s ‘New Look’ in Foreign Policy; Chapter 4 North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War; Developing Countries in the Crossfire; Regional Conflicts in Latin America; Vietnam: The Limits of Containment; Chapter 5 Détente and World-Order Politics; Managing the Superpower Rivalry; Carter’s Quest for World Order; War and Peace in the Middle East; Blowback and the Soviet Power Play; Chapter 6 Breakthroughs in the Superpower Struggle; Reagan’s Rhetorical Offensive; Expanding U.S. Military Forces; ‘Rollback’ in Developing Countries; Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War; From Confrontation to Conciliation; Chapter 7 The End of the Cold War; Bush’s Management of the Soviet Collapse; Endgame: The Collapse of the Core; Reasons for the Soviet Collapse; A Final Appraisal; Part II: The New World ‘Disorder’; Chapter 8 Old Tensions in a New Order; Great Expectations after the Cold War; Clinton’s Embrace of ‘Geoeconomics’; Sources of Global Fragmentation; War and Peace in the Middle East; The Plight of ‘Failed States’; Lessons from the Regional Crises; Chapter 9 The Shifting European Landscape; Western Europe: From Community to Union; Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe; NATO’s Search for a New Mission; ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in the Balkans; U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress; Chapter 10 America Under Fire; Strains in the Unipolar Order; The Growing Threat of ‘Sacred Terror’; Terror in the Morning Sky; Elements of Counterterrorism; A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption; Chapter 11 Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; The Afghanistan Campaign; The Pakistani Tinderbox; Renewed Hostilities against Iraq; Chapter 12 Looking Back, and Facing the Future; Flashbacks to Vietnam; Legacies of the Bush Era; Obama’s Call for “Renewal”; American Hegemony at Risk; Chapter 13 Aftershocks of the Arab Spring; Mass Demands for Democracy; Israel’s Quest for Internal Security; Iraq’s Collapse and the ISIS Challenge; The Afghan Muddle; Chapter 14 The Revival of Power Politics; Russia’s Declaration of Cold War II; China’s Pacific Challenge; Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation; Rethinking American Power;
• Edition: Twentieth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 409 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 327.7300904; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483368528; 1483368521
• Related ISBNs: 9781483368535
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.