Averting Global War
Subtitle: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230600867
Subjects: War And Peace; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Government - International; International Relations - Diplomacy; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Science / Government / International; General; International Relations - General; Peace; Case studies; Conflict management; Geopolitics; International Cooperation; Prevention; War
Description: "Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing 'war on terrorism'; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; the feud between Israel and the Palestinians; the widening 'zone of conflict' from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; the global ramifications of North Korea's nuclear program and China's claims to Taiwan; Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution' and the 'war on drugs' in Latin America, the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the US. The book's goal is to articulate an irenic American strategy intended to resolve, or at least transform, a number of these disputes and conflicts so as to prevent them from further 'deepening' or 'widening' -- and to avert the real possibility of major power confrontation involving both clandestine and overt methods of warfare."--Book cover.