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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798378503321

Autore

Mandelbaum Michael

Titolo

Mission failure : America and the world in the post-Cold War era / / Michael Mandelbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-046949-8

0-19-046948-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Classificazione

POL011010HIS036060

Disciplina

327.73009/04

Soggetti

Ideology - Political aspects - United States

Realism - Political aspects - United States

Humanitarian intervention - History - 20th century

Humanitarian intervention - History - 21st century

United States Foreign relations 1989-

United States Foreign relations Philosophy

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

China, the Global Economy, and Russia -- Humanitarian Intervention -- The War on Terror and Afghanistan -- Iraq -- The Middle East -- The Restoration.

Sommario/riassunto

Mission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.