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Superpower illusions how myths and false ideologies led America astray, and how to return to reality /

Main Author: Matlock, Jack F.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Cold War > Influence.
Unilateral acts (International law)
Intervention (International law)
International cooperation.
United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
United States > Foreign relations > 1981-1989.
United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy.
United States > Military policy.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10587845
Table of Contents:
  • Myths and realities
  • Framework diplomacy : Reagan's approach to Gorbachev
  • Cleanup diplomacy and conclusions we can draw
  • Regime change : the Soviet Union disintegrates
  • A new world? (1992)
  • The unipolar delusion (the 1990s)
  • Hubris and its consequences (1993-2000)
  • Asleep at the switch : 9/11 and the "War on Terror"
  • Tar baby Iraq
  • Ideology trumps reality (2001-2009)
  • Course change
  • An agenda, not a doctrine.

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