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This book describes how American international policy alternates
between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These
cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe
fluctuations in America's involvement or non-involvement overseas.
In addition to its basic thesis, the book presents a fair-minded
account of four presidents' foreign policies in the post-Cold War
period: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack
Obama. It suggests recurring sources of cyclical change, along with
implications for the future. An engaged or involved foreign policy
entails the use of military power and diplomatic pressure against
other powers to secure American ends. A disengaged on noninvolved
policy relies on normal economic and political interaction with
other states, which seeks to disassociation from entanglements.
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.
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.
This book describes how American international policy alternates
between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These
cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe
fluctuations in America's involvement or non-involvement overseas.
In addition to its basic thesis, the book presents a fair-minded
account of four presidents' foreign policies in the post-Cold War
period: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack
Obama. It suggests recurring sources of cyclical change, along with
implications for the future. An engaged or involved foreign policy
entails the use of military power and diplomatic pressure against
other powers to secure American ends. A disengaged on noninvolved
policy relies on normal economic and political interaction with
other states, which seeks to disassociation from entanglements.
Dr. Thomas H. Henriksen in this publication provides a perspective
on the challenging question, "Is leaving the Middle East a Viable
Option?" He lays out a convincing argument that historical
involvement within the region based on commercial ties, the need to
secure stable international oil supplies (for the U.S. as well as
its allies), and engagement in the internecine Israeli-Arab
conflict all remain critical security issues for the United States.
He captures in a few pages volumes of information on the Middle
East as he crafts and weaves the history of United States'
involvement from 1783 to the present, highlighting the key
policy-making decisions concerning the Middle East. The historical
review provides the novice reader new understanding of the Middle
East and the knowledgeable reader an excellent overview.
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