[PDF] American Foreign Policy Since The Vietnam War eBook

Author : Richard A Melanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1315292793

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A revealing look at presidential politics and foreign policy-making from the aftermath of Vietnam to the NATO intervention in Kosovo. The book illuminates the relationship between presidents' domestic and foreign policy priorities and the key role of public opinion in constraining presidential initiatives, particularly the ability of a president to use military force overseas. In case studies ranging from the invasion of Grenada through the Gulf War and the dilemmas of Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, Melanson provides compelling portraits of presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton, and their different efforts to forge a foreign policy consensus.

Author : Richard A. Melanson
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765611987

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This book integrates the study of presidential politics and foreign policy-making from the Vietnam aftermath to the events following September 11 and the Iraqi War. Focusing on the relationship between presidents' foreign policy agendas and domestic politics, it offers compelling portraits of presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. In the course of comparing the efforts of these presidents to articulate a clear conception of the national interest and to forge a foreign policy consensus, the author shows the key role of public opinion in constraining presidential initiatives, in particular the decision to use military force overseas. Never more timely, this popular text is appropriate for courses in U.S. foreign policy, the presidency, or contemporary U.S. politics.

Author : Michael P. Sullivan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813164710

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The war in Vietnam achieved almost none of the goals the American decision-makers formulated, and it cost more than 56,000 American lives. Yet, until recently, Americans have preferred to ignore the causes and consequences of this disaster by treating the war as an aberration in United States foreign policy, an unfortunate but unique mistake. What are the "lessons" of Vietnam? Many previous discussions have focused on narrow or misleading questions, rehashing military decisions, for example, or offering blow-by-blow accounts of Washington infighting, or castigating foreign-policy decision-makers. Michael Sullivan undertakes instead a broad and systematic treatment of the American experience in Vietnam, using a variety of theoretical perspectives to study several aspects of that experience, including the decision-making process and decision-makers' perceptions of the war; public opinion and "mood" before, during, and after the war; and the Vietnam War in relation to the Cold War and to power structures and patterns of violence in the international system. The major goal of The Vietnam War: A Study in the Making of American Policy is to show that the American experience, not only in Vietnam but elsewhere in the world, must be understood as an integral part of the processes of both American foreign policy and international politics. Sullivan demonstrates the importance of using a variety of empirical and quantitative evidence to study foreign policy and of relating a specific historical situation like the Vietnam War to broader theories of international relations.

Author : Jerald A Combs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1317456408

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This important text offers a clear, concise and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. The book narrates events and policies but goes further to emphasize the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate, the domestic pressures on those policy-makers, and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.

Author : Richard Sobel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Intervention (International law)
ISBN :

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This study examines the role that public attitudes have played over the last generation in the making of United States foreign policy. It focuses on four prominent foreign interventions: the Vietnam War, the Nicaraguan Contra funding controversy, the Persian Gulf War, and the Bosnia crisis.

Author : John Dumbrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 134925052X

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This book examines the history of US foreign policy since the Vietnam War. It focuses on four themes: the legacy of Vietnam; the ending and aftermath of the Cold War; the debate over American international decline; and the frequently undemocratic conduct of US foreign policy. The book considers alternative explanations for the Cold War's end. It evaluates the foreign policy leadership of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton and assesses prospects for US foreign policy after the Cold War.

Author : Steven W. Hook
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452226717

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The classic text on the conduct of American foreign policy, Hook and Spanier's book has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of the field. With each edition, the authors find that new developments in foreign policy conform to the book's enduring theme-that there is an American "style" of foreign policy imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism. Giving students the historical context they need, the book allows them to truly grasp the functions and frequent dysfunctions of the nation's foreign policy agenda. Thoroughly updated, this nineteenth edition's noteworthy revisions include: Comprehensive coverage of the most recent developments in world politics, including the "Arab Spring," the global debt crisis, and the rise of China as a major world power; Extensive treatment of the gradual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, its ongoing war in Afghanistan, military operations in Pakistan, the takedown of Osama bin Laden, and the new U.S.-Russian START treaty; Exhaustive coverage of foreign policy under President Barack Obama and its connection to domestic politics, including: Obama's efforts to revive U.S. credibility abroad, to wield soft power along with military muscle, and to extricate the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan; and Coverage of new scholarly findings and policy debates that offers new insights on the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Reagan "revolution," the end of the Cold War, and the U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Book jacket.

Author : Philip J. Briggs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847679461

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This text explores the struggle between the President and Congress to shape US foreign policy from World War II, through Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, to the Clinton Administration's policy in Somalia. Case studies are included.

Author : Thomas L. Brewer
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780130292407

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Written in clear, straight-forward prose, this substandve introduction to contemporary American foreign policy and the policy making process places military, economic, and other issues in their global context and in the context of the domestic policy process. Provides an overview of major trends in world politics and discusses many policy problems in a global context. Incorporates recent information and literature concerning process, policy, and changes in the U.S. administration. Contains substandal material on international trade, multi-national corporations, and other significant economic topics.