American Foreign Policy Since World War II

American Foreign Policy Since World War II

American Foreign Policy Since World War II

American Foreign Policy Since World War II

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Overview

Written in an accessible style with a minimum of jargon, this text presents an overview of American foreign policy since World War II. The focus is on the conduct of foreign policy rather than its formulation. The 16th edition contains new material examining the causes and implications of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A table of U.S. administrations and a chronology of significant events are found in the appendix. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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ISBN-13: 9781071814703
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 01/27/2024
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About the Author

Steven W. Hook is professor of political science at Kent State University. In addition to this book, he is co-author of American Foreign Policy Since World War II (CQ Press, 2019, 21st ed., with John Spanier) and author of National Interest and Foreign Aid (Lynne Rienner, 1995). His edited books include U.S. Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal? (CQ Press, 2012, with James M. Scott), the Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy (Routledge Press, 2012, with Christopher M. Jones), and Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice (Kent State University Press, 2010). His journal articles have appeared in World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Asian Survey, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Interactions, and other leading journals. Professor Hook received a BA (1982) in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Michigan and an MA (1990) and Ph D (1993) in International Studies from the University of South Carolina. At Kent State, he received the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and served as department chair from 2008 to 2012. He is a past president of the Foreign Policy Analysis sections of the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association.

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

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