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In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust quickly to an international arena that was completely transformed.Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro have assembled an illustrious roster of officials from the George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations-Robert B. Zoellick, Paul Wolfowitz, Eric S. Edelman, Walter B. Slocombe, and Philip Zelikow. These policymakers describe how they went about making strategy for a world fraught with possibility and peril. They offer provocative reinterpretations of the economic strategy advanced by the George H. W. Bush administration, the bureaucratic clashes over policy toward the breakup of the USSR, the creation of the Defense Policy Guidance of 1992, the expansion of NATO, the writing of the National Security Strategy Statement of 2002, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A group of eminent scholars address these same topics. Bruce Cumings, John Mueller, Mary Elise Sarotte, Odd Arne Westad, and William C. Wohlforth probe the unstated assumptions, the cultural values, and the psychological makeup of the policymakers. They examine whether opportunities were seized and whether threats were magnified and distorted. They assess whether academicians and independent experts would have done a better job than the policymakers did. Together, policymakers and scholars impel us to rethink how our world has changed and how policy can be improved in the future.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801460814
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

IN UNCERTAIN TIMES AmericanForeignPolicyaftertheBerlin Wall and 9/11

EditedbyMelvynP.Lefflerand Jeffrey W. Legro

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON PublishedinassociationwiththeUniversityofVirginia’sMillerCenter of Public Affairs

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First published 2011 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2011 Printed in the United States of America

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In uncertain times : American foreign policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 / edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro. p. cm. “Published in association with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801449093 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 9780801476198 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States—Foreign relations—1989– 2. National security— United States. I. Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945– II. Legro, Jeffrey W., 1960– III. White Burkett Miller Center. E840.I46 2011 327.73009'049—dc22 2010053588

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Introduction:NavigatingtheUnknownMelvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro

1. The Wall Comes Down: A Punctuational Moment Mary Elise Sarotte 2. An Architecture of U.S. Strategy after the Cold War Robert B. Zoellick 3. Shaping the Future: Planning at the Pentagon, 1989–93 Paul Wolfowitz 4. The Strange Career of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance Eric S. Edelman 5. A Crisis of Opportunity: The Clinton Administration and Russia Walter B. Slocombe 6. U.S. Strategic Planning in 2001–02 Philip Zelikow 7. Questing for Monsters to Destroy John Mueller 8. The Assumptions Did It Bruce Cumings 9. Faulty Learning and Flawed Policies in Afghanistan and Iraq Odd Arne Westad 10. How Did the Experts Do? William C. Wohlforth

Conclusion: Strategy in a Murky WorldMelvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro

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Acknowledgments

Wewishtothankourcontributors—influentialofficialsandscholars—whotook the time to come to the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia to discuss these matters, to reflect on the recent past, and to draft and refine these illuminating essays. We, the editors, are also grateful to the William and Carol Stevenson family, to Governor Gerald Baliles, the director of the Miller Center, and to Cornell University Press for providing the resources to hold our conference and to support the publication of this book. And we hap pily acknowledge the work of our collaborator, Anne Carter Mulligan, who has been indispensable in bringing this book to fruition.