Michael Mandelbaum (Johns Hopkins-S Professor of Political Science

Mission Failure

America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In Mission Failure, Mandelbaum argues that, in the past 25 years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a significant shift. Historically, U.S. foreign policy was oriented primarily toward threat reduction, but the U.S. military has turned in recent years to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political. Mandelbaum argues that ideologically-driven foreign policy--that which seeks to reconstruct societies along Western lines--generally leads to mission failure"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 167mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9780190469474
• ISBN-10: 0190469471
• Artikelnr.: 44946812

Autorenporträt

Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins-SAIS

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: China, the Global Economy, and Russia
A New Administration in a New World
China and Human Rights
Economics as Foreign Policy
Russia: The Good Deed
Russia: The Bad Deed
Chapter 3: Humanitarian Intervention
The Innovation
Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda
Bosnia
Kosovo
Famous Victories
Chapter 4: The War on Terror and Afghanistan
To the World Trade Center
The War on Terror
Afghanistan: Success
Afghanistan: Failure
Afghanistan: The Long Goodbye
Chapter 5: Iraq
From War to War
From Success to Failure
The Wars After the War
The Home Front
Exit and Reentry
Chapter 6: The Middle East
The Center of the World
The Peace Process
Land for War
The Democracy Agenda
The Arab Spring
Chapter 7: The Restoration
The End of the Post-Cold War Era
The Bubbles Burst
The Rogues
The Rise of China
The Revenge of Russia
Chapter 8: Conclusion