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Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000
This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. The book emphasizes Clinton's adaptation of the elder Bush's 'New World Order' outlook and his relationship to the younger Bush's 'Americanistic' foreign policy. In doing so, it discusses in detail such key policy areas as foreign economic policy; humanitarian interventionism; policy towards Russia and China, and towards European and other allies; defence priorities; international terrorism; and peacemaking. Overall, the author judges that Clinton managed to develop an American foreign policy approach that was appropriate for the domestic and international conditions of the post-Cold War era. This book will be of great interest to students of Clinton's administration, US foreign policy, international security and IR in general. John Dumbrell is Professor of Government at Durham University. He specialises in the study of US foreign policy.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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January 23, 2019
Good information about the US, poor and incorrect information about the rest of the world by and large....
so the author understands the foreign policy dynamics of the US, the domestic politics that affected them, but then doesn't understand the conflicts that he writes about. So he doesn't understand Rwanda, Palestine, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, but he understands how the US foreign policy was formed.
its semi-reliable. Not a hard read, but you need to look at alot of it with a highly critical eye.
Its too Americentric, so he ends up saying numerous misleading or incorrect things, simply because the author has done enough reading on these rest-of-world topics. His position really is that everything happens because of the US, and awards no agency to anyone in the 95% of the world that is not the USA. In the end, he fails to explain this conflict or any other, so you need to read other books.
An example of the ridiculous overfocus on the USA : He says that Rabin was assassinated, and all he says on the matter, was that it profoundly affected Clinton. Not a word to explain how it affected Israeli-Palestinian politics or peace process, just that it rattled Clinton.
so the author understands the foreign policy dynamics of the US, the domestic politics that affected them, but then doesn't understand the conflicts that he writes about. So he doesn't understand Rwanda, Palestine, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, but he understands how the US foreign policy was formed.
its semi-reliable. Not a hard read, but you need to look at alot of it with a highly critical eye.
Its too Americentric, so he ends up saying numerous misleading or incorrect things, simply because the author has done enough reading on these rest-of-world topics. His position really is that everything happens because of the US, and awards no agency to anyone in the 95% of the world that is not the USA. In the end, he fails to explain this conflict or any other, so you need to read other books.
An example of the ridiculous overfocus on the USA : He says that Rabin was assassinated, and all he says on the matter, was that it profoundly affected Clinton. Not a word to explain how it affected Israeli-Palestinian politics or peace process, just that it rattled Clinton.
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