American foreign policy since World War II. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Hook, Steven W, 1959-; Spanier, John W
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The American Approach to Foreign Policy; Learning from Experience; The Roots of American Primacy; Destiny and Moral Mission; 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; Bill 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; Renewed Hostilities against Iraq; Flashbacks to Vietnam; Chapter 12 Aftershocks of the Arab Spring; Obama’s Call for “Renewal”; Mass Demands for Democracy; Regime Change in Dangerous Places; Iraq’s Collapse and the ISIS Challenge; A Government in Shambles; The Afghan Muddle; Chapter 13 The Revival of Power Politics; Cold War II with Russia; China’s Pacific Challenge; Israel’s Shadow in the Middle East; Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation; Chapter 14 The End of the American Century?; Internal Threats to Democracy; Trump and Turmoil; Rethinking American Power; Appendix A: U.S. Administrations since World War II; Appendix B: Chronology of Significant Events, 1945–2017; Appendix C: Select Bibliography; Appendix D: Select Websites; Appendix E: Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy; Index; About the Authors;
• Edition: Twenty-first edition
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.7300904; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506385624
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