American foreign policy since the Vietnam War
Subtitle: the search for consensus from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
By: by Richard A. Melanson.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of consensus; title: The elements of consensus; title: After Vietnam; title: After the Cold War; title: After September 11; title: Foreign policy legitimation; title: The Nixon administration; title: The new majority; title: Peace with honor; title: A full generation of peace; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: The people's president; title: A complex new world; title: The arc of crisis; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: We the people; title: A shining city on the hill; title: The "rescue mission" and the "democratic resistance"; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: The Bush administration; title: The procedural president; title: From containment to the new world order; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: The governor-president; title: The dilemmas of armed intervention; title: A strategy of engagement and enlargement; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: The George W. Bush administration; title: The compassionate conservative; title: 9/11 and operation enduring freedom; title: A strategy of prevention and enlargement; title: A new foreign policy consensus?; title: American foreign policy since Nixon; title: The Nixon administration; title: The Carter administration; title: The Reagan administration; title: The Bush administration; title: The Clinton administration; title: The George W. Bush administration.