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The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican governments intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes. In America's Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how America tried to remake the world by militarily invading a host of nations beset with civil wars, ethnic cleansing, brutal dictators, and devastating humanitarian conditions. The immediate post-Cold War years saw the United States carrying out interventions in the name of Western-style democracy, humanitarianism, and liberal internationalism in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Later, the 9/11 terrorist attacks led America into larger-scale military incursions to defend itself from further assaults by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and from perceived nuclear arms in Iraq, while fighting small-footprint conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Arabia. This era is coming to an end with the resurgence of great power rivalry and rising threats from China and Russia.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note from the Editor -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Cycler Nature of US Foreign Policy -- Searching for Cycles in the Past -- Cycles Before the End of the Cold War -- Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Cycles in Brief -- Notes -- Part I -- Chapter 2: George Herbert Walker Bush: A Disorderly World -- Foreign Policy Cycles after 1989 -- George Herbert Walker Bush and the Soviet Disintegration -- Bush: The Military Interventionist -- Operation Just Cause in Panama -- Notes -- Chapter 3: George H.W. Bush: Interventionism Unbound -- Bush and the Hatching a Troublemaker -- A Rogue Strikes -- A Shield in the Desert -- A Desert Storm Unleashed -- An Armed Peace in the Gulf -- Somalia: An International Curtain Call -- The Cycle Begins to Reverse -- Bush: In Retrospect -- Notes -- Part II -- Chapter 4: William Jefferson Clinton: The Post-Cold War's Inward Look -- Clinton's New World Order -- The Swing toward the Non-interventionist Pole -- Rwanda-A Tragic Non-intervention -- Haiti and Presidential Hesitancy -- North Korea-Military Threats and Concessions -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Bill Clinton and Reluctant Interventions into the Balkans -- Background to the Balkan Morass -- Bill Clinton and the Slow Rescue -- Being Drawn into the Balkans -- Dayton and a Pax Americana -- Kosovo: The Balkans' Second Round -- Dodging International Involvement -- Iraq Finessed and Counterterrorism Shirked -- The Holiday from Terrorism -- Notes -- Part III -- Chapter 6: George Walker Bush and the International Outreach -- September 11 and the Return of American Interventionism -- Coalition Building -- Rallying America's Allies -- Attacking Afghanistan -- The Plunge into Nation-Building -- A Global Approach to Counter Terrorism -- Notes -- Chapter 7: George W. Bush's Overstretch Abroad -- Iraq-The War of Choice? -- The Rush to War in Iraq

Both the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes throughout their histories. In this book, Thomas H. Henriksen examines the warrior-spy connection both before and after the formation of the SOF and the CIA. Henriksen shows how, by adopting an intelligence-driven, targeted counterstrike weapon against terrorists, the United States went from a Cold War Goliath to a more nimble force, thanks largely to the SOF and CIA contributions. --Provided by publisher.

In its unprecedented position as sole world superpower, the United States must judiciously consider what course to take in foreign affairs. Foreign Policy for America's Twenty-first Century: Alternative Perspectivespresents six carefully crafted and bold approaches to this problem from some of the nation's foremost foreign policy experts. Chosen not for their unanimity but for their conflicting visions, these essays are written in accessible prose without esoteric language or scholarly jargon. Such issues as grand strategy, globalization, isolationism, and free trade are discussed in the conte

In its unprecedented position as sole world superpower, the United States must judiciously consider what course to take in foreign affairs. Foreign Policy for America's Twenty-first Century: Alternative Perspectivespresents six carefully crafted and bold approaches to this problem from some of the nation's foremost foreign policy experts. Chosen not for their unanimity but for their conflicting visions, these essays are written in accessible prose without esoteric language or scholarly jargon. Such issues as grand strategy, globalization, isolationism, and free trade are discussed in the context of a post-cold war world and a new century.