Averting Global War

Hall Gardner is Professor of Political Scienceat theAmerican University of Paris.

• Introduction: Crying Wolf Once Again? * Triptych of Terrorism * The Un-Coordinated NATO-EU Double Enlargement: Toward the Isolation of Russia? * Iraq: Sinking Deeper into Mesopotamian Quicksand * Iran: Nuclear High Tension and Holocaust Polemics: A _New Diplomatic Offensive_ or _Cruise Missile Diplomacy_? * Israel and Palestine: Toward Intra-Palestinian Strife, a Third Intifada, Or Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation? *An Ever Widening Zone of Conflict: From Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa * North Korea: Beyond _Backdoor_ Multilateralism * China and Blue Water Dreams: Toward a Sino-Russian Alliance? * Three Dimensions of _Montezuma_s Revenge_: Hugo Chávez_s Bolivarian Vision, _War on Drugs,_ _Illegal_ Immigration * American Hypertrophy and Strategic Options: Toward a Geostrategy for Global Peace

"Averting Global War is an artful and arresting defense of the need for American policy-makers to adopt meaningful and wise strategies for handling the growing number of regional problems throughout the world. In a comprehensive manner, Hall Gardner demonstrates how violence and perhaps even wars among the major power may result if the wrong approaches are taken to these growing challenges." - Robert Jackson, Author of Temptations of Power: the US in Global Politics since 9/11 "Hall Gardner zeroes in on the new world disorder, and alerts us to the geostrategic dangers inherent in our unsettled time." - Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., and Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute Mentioned in Politique Americaine, No10, Printemps 2008 by Ruth Lambertz