America's Wars
Interventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War
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About this book
The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican governments intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes. In America's Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how America tried to remake the world by militarily invading a host of nations beset with civil wars, ethnic cleansing, brutal dictators, and devastating humanitarian conditions. The immediate post-Cold War years saw the United States carrying out interventions in the name of Western-style democracy, humanitarianism, and liberal internationalism in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Later, the 9/11 terrorist attacks led America into larger-scale military incursions to defend itself from further assaults by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and from perceived nuclear arms in Iraq, while fighting small-footprint conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Arabia. This era is coming to an end with the resurgence of great power rivalry and rising threats from China and Russia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 An End and a Beginning: From Cold War to the Panama Invasion for Regime Change
- 2 The Persian Gulf War and Its Aftermath
- 3 Wars Other Than War: Wars in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo
- 4 Afghanistan: Regime Change and Building Society in the Graveyard of Empires
- 5 The Iraq War: Changing a Regime, Building Democracy, and Fighting an Insurgency
- 6 America's Small-Footprint Wars: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
- 7 America's Larger Forever Wars: Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq
- 8 A Conclusion: The New Era
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index