Superpower illusions [electronic resource] : how myths and false ideologies led America astray, and how to return to reality / Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xviii, 344 pISBN:- 9780300137613 (alk. paper)
- 0300137613 (alk. paper)
- 9780300155969 (e-book)
- Cold War -- Influence
- Unilateral acts (International law)
- Intervention (International law)
- International cooperation
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy
- United States -- Military policy
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- E895 .M38 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Myths and realities -- Framework diplomacy : Reagan's approach to Gorbachev -- Cleanup diplomacy and conclusions we can draw -- Regime change : the Soviet Union disintegrates -- A new world? (1992) -- The unipolar delusion (the 1990s) -- Hubris and its consequences (1993-2000) -- Asleep at the switch : 9/11 and the "War on Terror" -- Tar baby Iraq -- Ideology trumps reality (2001-2009) -- Course change -- An agenda, not a doctrine.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.