Screen LibraryAmerican power after the Berlin Wall
This book surveys the transformation and projection of American power abroad since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It summarizes U.S. handling of the Soviet Union's disintegration and covers the last seventeen years of U.S. interventions and conflicts.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230606920 |
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This book surveys the transformation and projection of American power abroad since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It summarizes U.S. handling of the Soviet Union's disintegration and covers the last seventeen years of U.S. interventions and conflicts. 'This unique work, in a single volume, chronicles and illuminates America's worldwide role in the post-Iron Curtain period.' - Business Wire 'American power after the Berlin Wall is a concise and gracefully consructed history and interpretation of recent American interventions.' - Jesse Schreger, International Affairs. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9780230600942 9780230606920 : 023060692X : |
| CLC: | D871.29 |
| Contents: | End of the Berlin Wall and the American Colossus * Intervention and Democracy in Central America * The Persian Gulf War * Globalization, Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti * Bosnia: War and Intervention * Kosovo: Round Two in the Balkans * Containing North Korea, Iraq, and Terrorism * Attacking Afghanistan * Iraq: War and Occupation * Stability and Security Through Democracy? |