In the shadow of the Cold War : American foreign policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump / Timothy J. Lynch, University of Melbourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Timothy J., 1969- author.

Series:

Cambridge essential histories

Cambridge Essential Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Decision making.

United States--Foreign relations--1989---Decision making.

United States.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations administration.

Foreign relations administration.

International relations--Administration.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book offers a bold reinterpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and reargue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it. When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared worse. This book tells the story not of a revolution in American foreign policy, but of its essentially continuous character from one era to the next. While there were many setbacks between the fall of Soviet communism and the opening years of the Trump administration, from Rwanda to 9/11 and Iraq to Syria, Lynch demonstrates that the United States remained the world's dominant power"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: in the shadow of the Cold War

1. George H. W. Bush: new world order, old world president, 1989-1992

2. Bill Clinton: new think, 1993-1996

3. Bill Clinton: the return of old think, 1997-2000

4. George W. Bush: a new Cold War, 2001-2004

5. George W. Bush: Truman redux, 2005-2008

6. Barack Obama's flexible response, 2009-2012

7. Barack Obama's soft containment, 2013-2017

Conclusion: Donald Trump and the end of the Cold War shadow?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lynch, Timothy J., 1969- In the shadow of the Cold War

ISBN:

9780521199872

0521199875

9780521136761

0521136768

OCLC:

1127069963