Averting Global War

Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy

H. Gardner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780230600850
• eBook ISBN: 9780230108714
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Diplomacy & Treaties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing _war on terrorism_; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; the feud between Israel and the Palestinians; the widening _zone of conflict_ from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; the global ramifications of North Korea_s nuclear program and China_s claims to Taiwan; Venezuela_s _Bolivarian Revolution_ and the _war on drugs_ in Latin America, the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the US. The book_s goal is to articulate an irenic American strategy intended to resolve, or at least transform, a number of these disputes and conflicts so as to prevent them from further _deepening_ or _widening__and to avert the real possibility of major power confrontation involving both clandestine and overt methods of warfare.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: “Crying Wolf” Once Again?
• Chapter 1 Triptych of Terrorism
• Chapter 2 The Uncoordinated NATO-EU “Double Enlargement”: Toward the Isolation of Russia?
• Chapter 3 Iraq: Sinking Deeper into Mesopotamian Quicksand
• Chapter 4 Iran: Nuclear High Tension and Holocaust Polemics
• Chapter 5 Israel and Palestinian Fratricide: Beyond the “Two State Solution”?
• Chapter 6 An Ever-widening Zone of Conflict, Terrorism, and Black Market Activities: From Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 7 North Korea: Beyond “Backdoor” Multilateralism
• Chapter 8 China and Blue-water Dreams: Toward a Sino-Russian Alliance?
• Chapter 9 Three Dimensions of “Montezuma’s Revenge”: Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Vision, “War on Drugs,” and “Illegal” Immigration
• Chapter 10 American Hypertrophy and Strategic Options: Toward a Geostrategy for Global Peace
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index