Averting global war : regional challenges, overextension, and options for American strategy / Hall Gardner.

Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing "war on terrorism"; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Gardner, Hall
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Crying wolf" once again?
  • Triptych of terrorism
  • The uncoordinated NATO-EU "double enlargement" : toward the isolation of Russia?
  • Iraq : sinking deeper into Mesopotamian quicksand
  • Iran : nuclear high tension and Holocaust polemics
  • Israel and Palestine fratricide : beyond the "two state solution"?
  • An ever-widening zone of conflict, terrorism, and black market activities : from Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa
  • North Korea : beyond "backdoor" multilateralism
  • China and blue-water dreams : toward a Sino-Russian alliance?
  • Three dimensions of "Montezuma's revenge" : Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian vision, "war on drugs," and "illegal" immigration
  • American hypertrophy and strategic options : toward a geostrategy for global peace.