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American Adventurism Abroad: Invasions, Interventions, and Regime Changes Since World War II

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7075-8
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December 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Tables.

List of Abbreviations.

Introduction to the Revised Edition.

Introduction.

Part I: The Early Years: Embracing a New Role, 1945–1960.

1. From World War II to the Cold War: The Truman Years, 1945–52.

Introduction to the European Region.

Case 1: Greece, 1947–9.

Case 2: Italy, 1948.

Case 3: Philippines, 1946–53.

Introduction to the East Asian Region.

Bibliography.

2. The Expanding Empire Under Eisenhower, 1953–60.

Introduction to the Middle East.

Case 4: Iran, 1953.

Introduction to the Western Hemisphere.

Case 5: Guatemala, 1954.

Case 6: Lebanon, 1958.

Introduction to the Southeast Asia Sub-Region: Indochina–I.

Bibliography.

Part II: The Extremist Years, 1961–1976.

3. The Kennedy–Johnson Idealist Extensions, 1961–8.

Introduction to the African Region.

Case 7: Congo, 1961–5.

Case 8: Cuba, 1961.

Case 9: British Guiana, 1961–6.

Indochina–II.

Case 10: Laos, 1961–73.

Case 11: South Vietnam, 1961–5.

Case 12: Brazil, 1964.

Case 13: Dominican Republic, 1961–6.

Case 14: Indonesia, 1965–6.

Postscript: Greece, 1967–74.

Bibliography.

4. The Nixon–Ford Realist Consolidations, 1969–76.

Case 15: Cambodia, 1970.

Case 16: Kurdistan, 1971–5.

Case 17: Chile, 1973.

Case 18: Angola, 1975.

Case 19: Australia, 1975.

Case 20: East Timor, 1975.

Bibliography.

Part III: The Four-Year Aberration, 1977–1980.

5. Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Pause, 1977–80.

Bibliography.

Part IV: Transition to the Post-Cold War Era, 1981–2001.

6. Ronald Reagan: The Last Cold Warrior, 1981–8.

Case 21: El Salvador, 1979–91.

Case 22: Nicaragua, 1981–8.

Case 23: Grenada, 1983.

Case 24: Libya, 1981–6.

Case 25: Afghanistan, 1981–8.

Bibliography.

7. The Post-Cold War Era: Bush, Clinton, and the Search for New Themes, 1989–2000.

Case 26: Panama, 1989.

Case 27: Iraq, 1991.

Case 28: Somalia, 1992–94.

Case 29: Haiti, 1994.

Case 30: Yugoslavia, 1995 and 1999.

Bibliography.

Part V: The Attacks of 9-11 and the Start of a New Era.

8. George W. Bush and the “War on Terror”.

Case 31: Afghanistan, 2001ff.

Case 32: Iraq, 2003ff.

Case 33: Venezuela, 2002.

Case 34: Haiti, 2004.

Bibliography.

Conclusion.

Index.

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