From Berlin to Baghdad [electronic resource] : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World /
Brands, Hal,1983-
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
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-410) and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
World politics