Examines critically the foreign policy of President Bush's administration focusing on "doctrines of preemptive attack and preventative war." Raises questions about the support of the United States for a select group of dictatorships while imposing democracy on those who are at war with us. A major theme of this discussion is that 'we cannot defeat fear with fear.".
year: 2004, 2003
call number/section: 327.73
subjects: globalization, political aspects, international cooperation, democracy, terrorism, fear, united states, united states, military policy, philosophy, foreign relations, 2001-, intervention (international law), military policy
Editions
Barber, Benjamin R.
W.W. Norton & Co. (2004)
Examines critically the foreign policy of President Bush's administration focusing on "doctrines of preemptive attack and preventative war." Raises questions about the support of the United States for a select group of dictatorships while imposing democracy on those who are at war with us. A major theme of this discussion is that 'we cannot defeat fear with fear.".
Schools: 0
Barber, Benjamin R.
W.W. Norton (2003)
A critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy that exposes the folly of an agenda of preventive war, placing it in the context of two hundred years of American strategic doctrine.
Schools: 1