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Thus, the strife between North Koreans and South Koreans was secondary, and the war itself was avoidable."--BOOK JACKET.
In this comprehensive study Richard Thornton analyzes the wrenching policy-making process which defined Jimmy Carter's presidency. He argues that fundamental & never resolved policy differences between the president's two principal advisers -- Secretary of State Cyrus Vance & National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski -- infused every major policy decision from the beginning to the end of the Carter administration. Carter's inability to deal with the divergent approaches of his advisers led to the vacillations characteristic of his administration & to the public perception of his presidency as a failure. The Washington Institute Press, 1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: 202-293-7440, FAX: 1-800-828-2865.
Discusses the controversy between a declared war and an undeclared war and whether or not the President and Congress has a right to send troops according to the Constitution. The author suggests that to this very day almost all U.S. laws about the appropriate constitutional control over using force face serious challenges from developments such as future weapons technology and information technology since they originated out of the eighteenth century.
How President Reagan successfully rebuilt the Western Alliance, particularly in relations with the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan.
Examines Nixon's foreign policy, and shows how the Watergate Affair resulted in Henry Kissinger gaining more influence.
The point of departure for distinguished historian Richard C. Thornton's insightful new assessment of the Reagan administration is Reagan's overwhelming re-election in 1984. His first-term policies had placed the United States in the ascendancy over the Soviet Union, and he sought to capitalize on that success by bringing the Cold War to an end on favorable terms. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, proved increasingly unable to bear the costs of supporting its empire and client state and adopted a strategy of détente. Its new leader Mikhail Gorbachev personified the new stance, and his rise to power in 1985 galvanized the U.S. administration's détente faction in renewed opposition to Reagan's strategy and advocacy of accommodation with Moscow.
This is a book about the strategy and politics of the Reagan administration--a watershed in U.S. history. It is the record of how the president established and implemented the strategy that would ultimately lead to a victory over the S.U. in the Cold War.
How President Reagan successfully rebuilt the Western Alliance, particularly in relations with the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan.