The Faces of Power: United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Clinton / Edition 2

by Seyom Brown

Overview

In the new edition of this major work, Seyom Brown brings his authoritative account of United States foreign policy completely up-to-date with analyses of the Truman administration to the Clinton administration. Most notably, Brown provides an insightful overview of the last three presidencies, beginning with an expanded treatment of the Reagan years to the first major scholarly assessment of Bush's foreign policies to Clinton's early ambivalence toward grappling with the dilemmas of the post-Cold War world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231096690
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/11/1994
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	658
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Seyom Brown is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University and an Affiliate of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has held senior research positions with the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the RAND Corporation. He is a widely published author in the fields of international relations and United States foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Constancy and Change Since World War II
Purpose and Power: An Overview
The Truman Administration
The Changing Essence of Power
The Eisenhower Era
The Shattering of Expectations
The Implementation of Containment
The Kennedy-Johnson Years
A New Look for Less Expensive Power
Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford
Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face
The Carter Period
Crises and Complications
The Reagan Era: Realism or Romanticism?
Enhancing the Arsenal of Power
Prudence and Power in the Bush Years
The Third World as a Primary Arena of Competition
Enter Bill Clinton
Kennedy's Cuban Crises
Berlin Again
The Vietnam Quagmire
Avoiding Humiliation in Indochina
The Insufficiency of Military Containment
The Middle East and the Reassertion of American Competence Abroad
The Anachronism of Conservative Realpolitik
The Many Faces of Jimmy Carter
Idealism as the Higher Realism
The Camp David Accords: Carter's Finest Hour
Hostages in Iran
Afghanistan and the Reassertion of Geopolitical Imperatives
High Purpose and Grand Strategy
The Tension Between Foreign and Domestic Imperatives
Middle Eastern Complexities: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terrorism, and Arms for Hostages
Contradictions in Latin America
The Reagan-Gorbachev Symbiosis
Presiding Over the End of the Cold War
George Bush and the Resort to Military Power
The New World Order
From Domestic Politician to Geopolitician

Editorial Reviews

[A]n analysis with difference-an important difference. Seyom Brown discusses United States policy from the perspective of how decision makers in the United States viewed their adversaries and the alternatives as those decision makers saw them.... Well worth the effort of a careful reading.

American Political Science Review

**** The previous edition, titled The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Reagan, is cited in BCL3. That edition carried the analysis through the first two years of the Reagan administration. The present edition completes the analysis of the Reagan years, presents an analysis of the Bush foreign policy, and takes an early look at directions being charted by the Clinton administration. The emphasis is on discerning the basic assumptions held by US policymakers about the country's international interests and purposes and about the power of the US to protect and further these interests and purposes. Paper edition (09669-0), $22.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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