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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817449503321

Autore

Brown Seyom

Titolo

Faces of power : constancy and change in United States foreign policy from Truman to Obama / / Seyom Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-231-53821-9

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (861 p.)

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Constancy and Change Since WWII -- PART I. THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION -- PART II. THE EISENHOWER ERA -- PART III. THE KENNEDY-JOHNSON YEARS -- PART IV. STATECRAFT UNDER NIXON AND FORD -- PART V. THE CARTER PERIOD -- PART VI. THE REAGAN ERA-REALISM OR ROMANTICISM? -- PART VII. PRUDENTIAL STATECRAFT WITH GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH -- PART VIII. CLINTON'S GLOBALISM -- PART IX. THE FREEDOM AGENDA OF GEORGE W. BUSH -- PART X. OBAMA'S UNIVERSALISM VERSUS A STILL-FRAGMENTED WORLD -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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