Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Obama

Introduction: Constancy and Change Since WWII

Part I THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION

1 The Shattering of Expectations

2 Implementing Containment

Part II THE EISENHOWER ERA

3 A New Look for Less Expensive Power

4 Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face

5 Crises and Complications

Part III THE KENNEDY-JOHNSON YEARS

6 Enhancing the Arsenal of Power

7 The Third World as a Primary Arena of Competition

8 Kennedy’s Cuban Crises

10 The Vietnam Quagmire

Part IV STATECRAFT UNDER NIXON AND FORD

11 Avoiding Humiliation in Indochina

12 The Insufficiency of Military Containment

13 The Middle East and the Reassertion of American Competence Abroad

14 The Anachronism of Conservative Realpolitik

Part V THE CARTER PERIOD

15 The Many Faces of Jimmy Carter

16 The Fusion of Realism and Idealism

17 The Camp David Accords: Carter’s Finest Hour

18 Iran and Afghanistan: Carter’s Struggles to Salvage Containment

Part VI THE REAGAN ERA—REALISM OR ROMANTICISM?

19 High Purpose and Grand Strategy

20 The Tension Between Foreign and Domestic Imperatives

21 Middle East Complexities, 1981–1989: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terrorism, and Arms for Hostages

22 Contradictions in Latin America

23 The Reagan-Gorbachev Symbiosis

Part VII PRUDENTIAL STATECRAFT WITH GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

24 Presiding Over the End of the Cold War

25 The Resort to Military Power

26 The New World Order

Part VIII CLINTON’S GLOBALISM

27 From Domestic Politician to Geopolitician

28 Opportunities and Frustrations in the Middle East

29 Leaving Somalia and Leaving Rwanda Alone

30 Getting Tough with Saddam and Osama

31 Into Haiti and the Balkans: The Responsibility to Protect

Part IX THE FREEDOM AGENDA OF GEORGE W. BUSH

32 Neoconservatives Seize the Day

33 9/11, the War on Terror, and a New Strategic Doctrine

34 From Containment to Forcible Regime Change: Afghanistan and Iraq

35 National Security and Civil Liberties

Part X OBAMA’S UNIVERSALISM VERSUS A STILL-FRAGMENTED WORLD

36 Engaging the World

37 Ending Two Wars

38 Counterterrorism and Human Rights

39 Ambivalence in Dealing with Upheavals in the Arab World