Research Catalog

Title

Bush league diplomacy : how the Neoconservatives are putting the world at risk / Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman.

Author

Eisendrath, Craig R.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Goodman, Melvin A. (Melvin Allan), 1938-

Description

268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Bush League Diplomacy offers a comprehensive critique of the Bush administration's handling of international relations. Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman, both senior fellows at the Center for International Policy, demonstrate the folly and the dangers of abandoning diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of conducting U.S. foreign policy. They provide a thorough analysis of the thinking behind Bush's foreign policy, its pundits and practitioners who have longed for the opportunity to put their neoconservative ideas into practice, its destruction of arms control, its subversion of intelligence, its disdain for diplomacy and international law, and its predictable and disastrous consequences. The authors argue that a policy based on bullying sows seeds of resentment and mistrust among our potential allies and encourages nations hostile to our interests to seek nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to protect themselves against a belligerent world power."--Jacket.

Subject

• Bush, George W. 1946- > Views on international relations
• Bush, George W. 1946-
• USA Government
• Since 2001
• Geschichte 2001-2004
• Conservatism > United States
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• Unilateral acts (International law)
• Militarism > United States
• National security > United States
• Security, International
• United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009
• United States > Military policy

Genre/Form

• Catalog
• catalogs (documents)
• Catalogs
• Catalogues.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Path of failure -- Fall from grace: America abandons collective security -- Terrorism and peacekeeping: the Afghanistan precedent -- Geopolitical costs and risks of the Iraqi War -- International dangers for American security -- The failures of intelligence -- pt. 2. Foundations of failure -- Militarizing American security policy -- The end of arms control and disarmament -- Going it alone: Bush charts his own course -- The war at home -- pt. 3. From the wrong to the right path -- Where in the world is Bush taking us? -- Road map to the future: what is to be done? -- Appendix: Pursuing the phantom of a national missile defense.

ISBN

1591021766 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2004001535

OCLC

• 54349818
• SCSB-10424348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library