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In the aftermath of the catastrophic attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bill Clinton's time in office was portrayed as one in which vital opportunities to confront growing threats to US security were missed. Firmly challenging this characterization, James Boys explores the long-misunderstood approach adopted by the Clinton administration as it sought to define an effective response to acts of political violence. Boys argues that only by understanding the efforts of Clinton and his team to address international terrorism can we make sense of the reasoning behind the actions of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, all of whom inherited, continued, and expanded on Clinton-era policies and practices. Drawing on official documents and on interviews with key players, he reveals the evolution of counterterrorism strategy throughout the Clinton administration, as well as the ramifications that it has today

On 12 April 2015, Hillary Clinton formally announced her intention to run for President in 2016, casting herself as the 'champion of everyday Americans'. With near-universal name recognition and the promise to make history as the first female occupant of the Oval Office, all seems set for Hillary to secure the one role that has eluded her to date, but what drives this most intriguing and polarising of political figures? Will she be able to shake off her past mistakes and finally secure the Democratic Party's nomination? What are her chances of winning the White House? And, perhaps more importantly, what kind of President would she make? Drawing on original interviews with close associates of both Bill and Hillary, as well as a wealth of recently declassified materials from the Clinton archive, James D. Boys offers a clearsighted, non-partisan analysis of Hillary's rise to the pinnacle of American power, revealing the political ideology and core principles that have remained a constant throughout

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The long road from Little Rock -- Grand strategy in principle and history -- The 1992 primary season -- Grand strategy on the Clinton campaign -- Clinton's Grand Strategy campaign addresses -- Grand strategy in the presidential debates -- Conclusion: Clinton's triumph -- 2 Taking charge and taking stock -- Clinton's post-Cold War world -- Assembling a foreign policy team -- The return to Georgetown -- Talking the talk . . . -- Tough talk with the Pentagon -- New structures -- Somalia and Assertive Multilateralism -- Iran, Iraq, and dual containment -- The Tarnoff doctrine -- Conclusion: Clinton's poisoned chalice -- 3 A grand strategy emerges -- The growing mood of unrest -- Devising Clinton's doctrine -- Warren Christopher's address -- Madeleine Albright's address -- The presidential address -- Anthony Lake's address -- The backlash from rogue states of concern -- Reaction -- The difficult birth of Clinton's Grand Strategy -- Problems of policy and presentation -- Conclusion: Clashes on the road to grand strategy -- 4 Enhancing security -- National security in the Clinton administration -- UN peace operations -- A nuclear grand strategy -- National Missile Defense -- Intelligence -- The evolving national security threat -- Counter-terrorism -- Enhancing security: NATO expansion -- The Partnership for Peace -- An assessment of National Security Policy 1993-2001 -- Conclusion -- 5 Prosperity promotion -- Promoting prosperity in US history -- Prosperity promotion in the Clinton administration -- The National Economic Council -- Economic appointees -- Clinton's economic inheritance -- The Big Emerging Markets -- The CIA and prosperity promotion -- Structural approach -- Prosperity promotion and regional bodies: NAFTA and APEC.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. President Clinton's time in office coincided with historic global events following the end of the Cold War. The collapse of Communism called for a new US Grand Strategy to address the emerging geopolitical era that brought upheavals in Somalia and the Balkans, economic challenges in Mexico and Europe and the emergence of new entities such as the EU, NAFTA and the WTO. Clinton's handling of these events was crucial to the development of world politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Only by understanding Clinton's efforts to address the challenges of the post-Cold War era can we understand the strategies of his immediate successors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom inherited and continued Clinton-era policies and practices. James D. Boys sheds new light on the evolution and execution of US Grand Strategy from 1993 to 2001. He explores the manner in which policy was devised and examines the actors responsible for its development, including Bill Clinton, Anthony Lake, Samuel Berger, Warren Christopher, Madeline Albright and Richard Holbrook. He examines the core components of the strategy (National Security, Prosperity Promotion and Democracy Promotion) and how they were implemented, revealing a hitherto unexplored continuity from campaign trail to the White House. Covering the entire duration of Clinton's presidential odyssey, from his 1991 Announcement Speech to his final day in office, the book draws extensively on newly declassified primary materials and interviews by the author with key members of the Clinton administration to reveal for the first time the development and implementation of US Grand Strategy from deep within the West Wing of the Clinton White House.

The presidential campaign of 1992 is remembered for its focus on the US economy, as George Bush, Ross Perot, and Bill Clinton proposed solutions for the state of the nation's finances. A key challenge for the Clinton campaign was to present their candidate as a viable commander-in-chief, with a viable foreign policy, without betraying the campaign's focus on the domestic economy. A consideration of key speeches reveals the evolution of the candidate and his foreign policy, as the campaign served as a training ground for power. What emerges is Clinton's adoption of foreign policy as a positive force in American domestic political life, in contrast to his many predecessors and successors, who regularly utilised foreign policy to assail foreign nations and entities. In doing so, parallels and contrasts with the Trump's 2016 message emerge, enabling a greater appreciation of the use of campaign rhetoric in the development of US grand strategy.