The twelve months that spanned the period between the early springtimes of 1991 and 1992 may well turn out to constitute the most important year for American foreign and security policy in half a century. Encasing the dawning of a new and different security era, like macabre parentheses, were two columns of black smoke-that of 1991 over the newly liberated Kuwait, and that of 1992 over the emba…
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of Geor…
9 K- Blackstone Exclusive Dubbed by Barron's as ?The Shadow CIA, ? George Friedman's global intelligence company, Stratfor, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover ? the startling truth behind America's foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan…
History and identity in US foreign policy -- Victory and identity : the end of the Cold War in American imagination / Roger Johnson -- Cosmopolitanism or nativism? : US national identity and foreign policy in the twenty-first century / Carl Pedersen -- Motivations, identity and ideology in US foreign policy -- A neo-conservative-dominated US foreign policy establishment? / Inderjeet Parmar -- P…