William G. Hyland

Clinton's World (eBook, PDF)

Remaking American Foreign Policy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

No modern U.S. president inherited a stronger, safer international position than Bill Clinton. In 1992, the Cold War was over, and the nation was at peace and focused on domestic issues. Despite this temporary tranquility, Clinton would soon be faced with a barrage of crises, including flare-ups of unrest in the Middle East, ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, uneasy relations with Japan and China, persistent trouble in the Persian Gulf, the dissolution of the USSR, and disastrous situations in Somalia and Haiti. In this comprehensive and balanced examination of Clinton's foreign policy-the first such book to cover all the global focal points of his administration to date-William G. Hyland brilliantly shows the effects of combining this confusion with Clinton's unique personality characteristics. His first term was marked, in the author's analysis, by murky policy, unrealistic goals, and the mishandling of several crises. By the end of that term he learned some hard lessons, was able to alter his pattern of response, and reversed himself on some major aspects of foreign policy-all to benefit, in the author's view, the country and the world as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002069
• Artikelnr.: 68527955

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM G. HYLAND served a long career with the United States Government-at the White House, the State Department, and the NSC-and for ten years was the editor of Foreign Affairs Quarterly. He is the author of many works on international politics, as well as The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950 and Richard Rodgers.

Inhaltsangabe

The Legacy Mandate for Change Intervention Nation Building South of the
Border Russia European Security Asian Tangles Unsinkable Japan Watershed
Endgame Oslo and Beyond Iraq Crisis Management Between Hope and History
Selected Bibliography Index