American Foreign Policy Since World War II
448American Foreign Policy Since World War II
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ISBN-13: | 9781071814703 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 01/27/2024 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 448 |
File size: | 16 MB |
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About the Author
John Spanier received his Ph D from Yale University. Since joining the faculty of the University of Florida in 1957, Spanier has lectured at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, the Naval War College, military service academies, and several universities. Among his many other books is Games Nations Play.
Table of Contents
Maps, Tables, Figures, and Boxes x
Preface xiii
1 The American Approach to Foreign Policy 2
Learning from Experience 6
The Roots of American Primacy 7
Shifts in the Balance of Power 7
Redefining American Security 8
The American Sense of Destiny 10
A Skeptical View of Power Politics 12
Foreign Policy as Moral Mission 14
Challenges to American Exceptionalism 18
Part I The Cold War
2 From World War to Cold War 22
American Wartime Illusions 24
The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy 26
The Russian Background 26
The Soviet Ingredient 28
Soviet Expansion after World War II 30
U.S.-Soviet Differences 31
The Soviet Push to the South 32
The Strategy of Containment 34
George Kennan and the New Grand Strategy 36
Alternatives to Containment 38
Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine 41
3 Containment: From Theory to Practice 46
New Economic and Military Structures 48
The Bretton Woods System 49
The National Security Act 51
Reviving the Western European Allies 52
The Marshall Plan 53
Roots of the European Union 54
European Security and the NATO Alliance 56
Recurring Conflicts over Berlin 57
Confronting Revolution in East Asia 59
The Chinese Revolution 59
Hot War in Korea 62
Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade 66
Eisenhower's "New Look" in Foreign Policy 68
4 North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War 72
Developing Countries in the Crossfire 73
Regional Conflicts in Latin America 79
Guatemala's Military Coup 82
The Cuban Missile Crisis 83
Strong-Arming Chile 88
Vietnam: The Limits of Containment 89
Testing the "Domino Theory" 90
The Misconduct of Guerrilla Warfare 93
The Military Battlefield in Vietnam 94
The Political Battlefield at Home 97
American Defeat and Withdrawal 98
5 Detente and World-Order Politics 102
Managing the Superpower Rivalry 104
Henry Kissinger's Worldview 105
Exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split 106
Arms Control and "Linkage" 107
Carter's Quest for World Order 111
War and Peace in the Middle East 114
Early Arab-Israeli Wars 114
The Camp David Accords 116
Blowback and the Soviet Power Play 119
Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution 121
America "Held Hostage" in Iran 122
The Soviet Takeover in Afghanistan 124
6 Breakthroughs in the Superpower Struggle 126
Reagan's Rhetorical Offensive 128
Expanding U.S. Military Forces 130
Opposition to Arms Control 131
The Strategic Defense Initiative 132
"Rollback" in Developing Countries 134
Evaluating the Reagan Doctrine 138
The Iran-Contra Scandal 140
Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War 141
Poland and the Rise of Solidarity 141
The Missile Debate in Europe 144
From Confrontation to Conciliation 145
7 The End of the Cold War 150
Bush's Management of the Soviet Collapse 152
Dismantling Stalin's Empire 153
Detaching Brezhnev's Outposts 158
Stabilizing the Nuclear Balance 159
Endgame: The Collapse of the Core 160
Reasons for the Soviet Collapse 165
The Contending Arguments in Perspective 165
Excesses of the Containment Policy 169
A Final Appraisal 170
Part II The New World "Disorder"
8 Old Tensions in a New Order 172
Great Expectations after the Cold War 175
Clinton's Embrace of "Geoeconomics" 179
The Course of America's Economic Troubles 180
Responses by the Clinton Administration 181
Sources of Global Fragmentation 182
War and Peace in the Middle East 184
War in the Persian Gulf 184
Obstacles to an Arab-Israeli Peace 189
The Plight of "Failed States" 192
Political Collapse and Genocide in Africa 193
Haiti's Descent into Anarchy 194
Lessons from the Regional Crises 196
9 The Shifting European Landscape 198
Western Europe: From Community to Union 200
Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe 204
NATO's Search for a New Mission 206
"Ethnic Cleansing" in the Balkans 209
The Dayton Accords 212
The Kosovo Showdown 214
U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress 217
Internal Challenges to Reform 218
Unrest in the "Near Abroad" 220
10 America under Fire 224
Strains in the Unipolar Order 227
The Globalization Backlash 228
Retreat from Multilateralism 229
The Growing Threat of "Sacred Terror" 233
Early Warnings and Responses 234
The al Qaeda Connection 237
Terror in the Morning Sky 238
Elements of Counterterrorism 240
Intelligence 244
Diplomacy 245
Homeland Security 246
A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption 247
11 Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 252
The Afghanistan Campaign 253
Benign Neglect after the Cold War 254
Phase 1: Dislodging the Taliban 256
Phase 2: Nation Building in Rugged Terrain 257
Renewed Hostilities against Iraq 261
Making the Case for War 263
Operation Iraqi Freedom 267
A Race against Time 270
The "New Way Forward" 273
The Pakistani Tinderbox 274
12 Looking Back, Facing the Future 278
Flashbacks to Vietnam 279
Legacies of the Bush Era 283
Internal Threats to Democracy 284
The Financial Collapse of 2008 287
Obama's Call for "Renewal" 290
Three General Principles 292
Target Bin Laden 294
American Hegemony at Risk 297
13 Aftershocks of the Arab Spring 300
Mass Demands for Democracy 302
Regime Change in Tunisia and Egypt 304
NATO's Libya Gambit 308
Syria's Civil War 311
A Bloody Stalemate in Israel 313
Iraq's Collapse and the ISIS Challenge 315
A Government in Shambles 315
Calls for an Islamic Caliphate 317
The Afghan Muddle 321
14 The Revival of Power Politics 324
Cold War II with Russia 327
Putin's Crimean Land Grab 328
Ukraine on the Brink 331
China's Pacific Challenge 334
Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation 339
Iran's Quest for "Nuclear Rights" 339
Nuclear Brinkmanship in North Korea 342
Rethinking American Power 344
Appendix A U.S. Administrations since World War II 347
Appendix B Chronology of Significant Events, 1945-2014 348
Appendix C Select Bibliography 368
Appendix D Select Websites 388
Appendix E Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy 391
Index 392
About the Authors 409