Cycles in US Foreign Policy since the Cold War

Thomas H. Henriksen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319486390
• eBook ISBN: 9783319486406
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe fluctuations in America's involvement or non-involvement overseas. In addition to its basic thesis, the book presents a fair-minded account of four presidents' foreign policies in the post-Cold War period: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. It suggests recurring sources of cyclical change, along with implications for the future. An engaged or involved foreign policy entails the use of military power and diplomatic pressure against other powers to secure American ends. A disengaged on noninvolved policy relies on normal economic and political interaction with other states, which seeks to disassociation from entanglements.

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1. Introduction: The Cycler Nature of US Foreign Policy

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

“Full knowledge of the past helps us in dealing with the future.” Theodore Roosevelt¹

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Part I

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2. George Herbert Walker Bush: A Disorderly World

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolò Machiavelli

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3. George H.W. Bush: Interventionism Unbound

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come,

In yours and my discharge. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

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Part II

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4. William Jefferson Clinton: The Post-Cold War’s Inward Look

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

What you mustn’t do is to identify diplomacy with escalating concessions. Henry Kissinger

O brave new world, That has such people in’t. Shakespeare’s The Tempest

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5. Bill Clinton and Reluctant Interventions into the Balkans

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke

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Part III

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6. George Walker Bush and the International Outreach

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

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Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

So foul a sky clears not without a storm. William Shakespeare’s King John

Trying to plan for the future without a sense of history is like trying to plant cut flowers. Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of the US Congress

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7. George W. Bush’s Overstretch Abroad

Thomas H. Henriksen¹ 

(1)

Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

We cannot escape history. Abraham Lincoln

No one in his right mind would, or ought to, begin a war if he didn’t know how to finish it. Carl von Clausewitz

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: The Cycler Nature of US Foreign Policy
• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV
• Back Matter