American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War
by Melanson, Richard A.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-01-01
Publisher(s): M E Sharpe Inc
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Summary
"Relying on insights gleaned from the rhetoric and memoirs of key officials and interviews with them, Melanson compares the grand strategies, presidential tactics, and sales or public relations techniques of each administration. He ... succeeds in portraying objectively the strengths, flaws, obstacles, and opportunities of each administration. ... for all library collections". -- Choice
Author Biography
Richard A. Melanson is professor of international security studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Rise and Fall of the Cold War Consensus | |
| In Search of Consensus | p. 3 |
| The Elements of Consensus | p. 5 |
| After Vietnam | p. 16 |
| After the Cold War | p. 25 |
| Foreign Policy Legitimation | p. 31 |
| American Foreign Policy After Vietnam | |
| The Nixon Administration | p. 43 |
| The New Majority | p. 45 |
| Peace with Honor | p. 53 |
| A Full Generation of Peace | p. 63 |
| A New Foreign Policy Consensus? | p. 75 |
| The Carter Administration | p. 87 |
| The People's President | p. 88 |
| A Complex New World | p. 93 |
| The Arc of Crisis | p. 107 |
| A New Foreign Policy Consensus? | p. 115 |
| The Reagan Administration | p. 129 |
| We the People | p. 130 |
| A Shining City on the Hill | p. 136 |
| The "Rescue Mission" and the "Democratic Resistance" | p. 157 |
| A New Foreign Policy Consensus? | p. 179 |
| American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War | |
| The Bush Administration | p. 197 |
| The Procedural President | p. 197 |
| From Containment to the New World Order | p. 203 |
| A Post-Cold War Foreign PolicyConsensus? | p. 225 |
| The Clinton Administration | p. 239 |
| The Governor-President | p. 240 |
| The Dilemmas of Armed Intervention | p. 247 |
| A Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement | p. 261 |
| A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Consensus? | p. 282 |
| Conclusions | |
| American Foreign Policy Since Nixon | p. 293 |
| The Nixon Administration | p. 304 |
| The Carter Administration | p. 306 |
| The Reagan Administration | p. 307 |
| The Bush Administration | p. 307 |
| The Clinton Administration | p. 308 |
| Bibliography | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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