In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump

by Timothy J. Lynch

Book Overview

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it. When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521136768
• ISBN13: 9780521136761
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"