Cycles in US foreign policy since the Cold War

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€DesertA 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€BalkansDayton 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

A Striking First DoctrineThe Quest for€Consent at Home and€Abroad; Invasion, Regime Change, and€Occupation; Bush's Other International Interventions; The Pendulum Reverse with€Iran, North Korea, and€Darfur; America Punts Again: The€Republic of€Georgia and€Russia; Notes; Part IV; Chapter 8: Barack Hussein Obama and€the€New Retrenchment; Afghanistan: Searching for€an€Exit; The Middle East, Russia, and€Iran; The Afghanistan Reckoning; Drones and€Policy Deficit?; Iraq Abandoned; The Pivot to€Asia: Real or Imaginary?; Notes; Chapter 9: Barack Obama: A€Foreign Policy of€Disengagement

The Arab Spring and€US DisassociationLibya-Leading from€Behind; The Post-Qaddafi Legacy; The Syrian Sidestep; Chemical Weapons and€Red Lines; Syria, Iraq, and€the€Islamic State Network; The US Minimalist Counter; Iraq's Implications for€Afghanistan and€Yemen; Ukraine, Unconventional Warfare, and€Unbridled€Russia; The US-Iran Nuclear Deal; Notes; Chapter 10: Observations on€the€Cycles in US€Foreign€Policy; Historical Predictor?; Back to€the€Future?; Notes; Bibliography; Index