American Adventurism Abroad: Invasions, Interventions, and Regime Changes Since World War IIISBN: 978-1-4051-7075-8
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288 pages
December 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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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