American adventurism abroad
Subtitle: invasions, interventions, and regime changes since World War II
By: Michael J. Sullivan III
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781405170758
Subjects: Intervention (International law) -- History -- 20th century; Intervention (International law) -- History -- 21st century; Regime change -- History -- 20th century; Regime change -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From World War II to the Cold War : the Truman years, 1945-52; title: The expanding empire under Eisenhower, 1953-60; title: The Kennedy-Johnson idealist extensions, 1961-8; title: The Nixon-Ford realist consolidations, 1969-76; title: Jimmy Carter's human rights pause, 1977-80; title: Ronald Reagan : the last cold warrior, 1981-8; title: The post-Cold War era : Bush, Clinton, and the search for new themes, 1989-2001; title: George W. Bush and the "War on Terror"