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In the Shadow of the Cold War

American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvTimothy J. Lynch

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This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue 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 US remained the world's dominant power.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-05
Mått153 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Essential Histories
Antal sidor344
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521136761

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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?

'Readers will be intrigued and provoked by Timothy J. Lynch's new book. Insisting that there have been more continuities than discontinuities in America's post-Cold War foreign policy and that there have been more successes than failures, his arguments should stimulate constructive debate about what has been and what should be US strategy in a complex and challenging world.' Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia