From Cold War to New World Order

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From Cold War to New World Order The Foreign Policy of George H. W. Bush

Meena Bose, Rosanna Perotti

ISBN: 0-313-31682-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31682-1

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600 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2002

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Political Science

Description: One of the most significant areas of activity in the George Bush administration was foreign affairs. Drawing together participants as well as foreign policy scholars and journalists, Hofstra Universtiy organized the 1997 Conference on the Presidency of George Bush. This volume covers the key foreign affairs activities of the administration.

The essays examine major areas of the Bush foreign policy record. Included are papers on international trade, the Middle East, Latin America, Somalia, Bosnia, arms control, and U.S. base closing. Scholars, students, and other researchers involved with the policies of the Bush administration will find this a useful resource.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
International Trade
President Bush's Trade Rhetoric: Retaining the Free Trade Paradigm in an Era of Managed Trade by Delia B. Conti
The Far East
Trade Policymaking in the Bush Administration: U.S.-Japan Trade and the GATT Uruguay Round Negotiations by Christopher C. Meyerson
Personal Diplomacy: The Middle East Peace Process
It Wasn't My Fault: Or, Why Saddam Surprised the Bush Administration and Invaded Kuwait by P. Edward Haley
The Arab-Israeli Conflict under President Bush by Samuel Segev
The Agent-Structure Question in Theory: President Bush's Role during the Persian Gulf Crisis by Steve A. Yetiv
Latin America
The Bush Administration and Panama by Douglas Brinkley
The Failure of Cuba Policy by Jules N. LaRocque
President Bush, Congress, and the War Powers: Panama and the Persian Gulf by Duane Tananbaum
Student Panel Paper: Bush vs. Castro-America's Fight against the Banana Dictatorship by Derrick Bradford Wetherell and Michael J. McIsaac
Somalia and Bosnia
Operation Restore Hope: Somalia and the Frontiers of the New World Order by Stephen F. Burgess
Appointment in Sarajevo: George Bush, Yugoslavia, and the Prospects of Federalism by John E. Ullmann
Arms Control and Reduction
Arms Control and Military Preparedness in the Bush Administration by Martin E. Goldstein
The Post-Cold War Peace of Europe, 1989-1993 by Joseph P. Harahan
Defence Posture and Base Closings
The Rejection of a Cabinet Nomination: The Senate and John Tower by James D. King and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
The Bush Administration's Defense Policy: Transcending the Cold War by Earl C. Ravenal
Defence Cuts, Base Closings, and Conversion: Slow Reaction and Missed Opportunities by John E. Ullmann
Desert Shield and the Gulf War
The Bush Just War Doctrine: Genesis and Application of the President's Moral Leadership in the Persian Gulf War by Daniel R. Heimbach
George Bush, Mass Nationalism, and the Gulf War by Lawrence Radway
Gulf War Legacies
After the War: President Bush and the Kurdish Uprising by Michael Gunter
Index

About the Author: MEENA BOSE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is the author of Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy (1998).

ROSANNA PEROTTI is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. She has published on U.S. immigration policy in International Migration Review and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

LCC Class: 327


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