American foreign policy since the Vietnam War : the search for consensus from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush / Richard A. Melanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melanson, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

xii, 415 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2005]

Contents:

In search of consensus

The elements of consensus

After Vietnam

After the Cold War

After September 11

Foreign policy legitimation

The Nixon administration

The new majority

Peace with honor

A full generation of peace

A new foreign policy consensus?

The people's president

A complex new world

The arc of crisis

We the people

A shining city on the hill

The "rescue mission" and the "democratic resistance"

The Bush administration

The procedural president

From containment to the new world order

The governor-president

The dilemmas of armed intervention

A strategy of engagement and enlargement

The George W. Bush administration

The compassionate conservative

9/11 and operation enduring freedom

A strategy of prevention and enlargement

American foreign policy since Nixon

The Carter administration

The Reagan administration

The Clinton administration

The George W. Bush administration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-395) and index.

ISBN:

0765611988

OCLC:

56192612