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From Berlin to Baghdad : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World / Hal Brands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brands, Hal, 1983-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Containing Communism was the primary goal of American foreign policy for four decades, allowing generations of political leaders to build consensus atop a universally accepted foundation. From Berlin to Baghdad dissects numerous attempts, after communism's collapse, to devise a new grand strategy that could match containment's moral clarity and political efficacy. In the 1990s, the Bush and Clinton administrations eventually acknowledged that they could not reduce America's multifaceted post--Cold War objectives to a single fundamental precept. After 9/11, George W. Bush promoted the war on t
- Contents:
- Beyond the Cold War?
- Peace elusive
- The search for order
- The successor to containment
- Unmaking enlargement
- Whither foreign policy?
- Post-bumper sticker diplomacy
- The politics of foreign policy
- Full circle
- Waging the war on terror.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-410) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813134925
- 0813134927
- 9780813159324
- 0813159326
- 9780813172729
- 0813172721
- OCLC:
- 182624750
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