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Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy

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The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain why and when presidents choose to use force. The boo...
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  • 08 December 2021
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The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain why and when presidents choose to use force.

The book examines decisions to use force throughout the post-Cold War period, via flashpoints including the Balkans, the ‘War on Terror’ and the Middle East. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and across different US presidential administrations, from George H.W. Bush to Donald Trump.

For students, scholars and anyone with an interest in international relations and global security, this book is an original perspective on a defining issue of recent decades.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 232
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 08 December 2021
ISBN: 9781529215908
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, Theory of warfare and military science, War and defence operations
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Morgan T. Rees completed his PhD at Griffith University in 2019 and currently works as a sessional lecturer at Griffith University and the University of Queensland. His research interests include Foreign Policy decision-making, International Relations theory, and American Politics.

Part 1: Disaggregating Ideas in American Foreign Policy

1. Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy

Part 2: US Foreign Policy and Mass Atrocities in the Balkans

2. ‘We Don’t Have a Dog in the Fight’: Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia

3. ‘What Should I Tell My Daughter?’: The Massacre at Srebrenica

Part 3: US Foreign Policy and Terrorism

4. ‘Wag the Dog’: Terrorism in the 1990s

5. ‘America Is Under Attack’: From the War on Terror to Iraq

Part 4: Obama and Mass Atrocities in the Middle East

6. ‘This Is Like Rwanda’: How the Road to Libya Ran Through Rwanda

7. Syria: ‘There Was No Benghazi To Be Saved’

Part 5: ‘America First’ and the Use of Force

8. From ‘America First’ to Saving ‘Beautiful Babies’ in Syria

9. The 2020 Iranian Crisis: De-escalating from the Use of Force

Part 6: Conclusions

10. Ideas and Foreign Policy Variation