Superpower illusions : how myths and false ideologies led America astray-- and how to return to reality

Publication Data

• Title Superpower illusions : how myths and false ideologies led America astray-- and how to return to reality
• Author Jack F. Matlock
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Contents

Myths and realities
Framework diplomacy : Reagan's approach to Gorbachev
Cleanup diplomacy and conclusions we can draw
Regime change : the Soviet Union disintegrates
A new world? (1992)
The unipolar delusion (the 1990s)
Hubris and its consequences (1993-2000)
Asleep at the switch : 9/11 and the "War on Terror"
Tar baby Iraq
Ideology trumps reality (2001-2009)
Course change
An agenda, not a doctrine.

Topics

• Cold War :: Influence
• Unilateral acts (International law)
• Intervention (International law)
• International cooperation
• United States :: Foreign relations :: 1989-
• United States :: Foreign relations :: 1981-1989
• United States :: Foreign relations :: Philosophy
• United States :: Military policy
• United States :: Foreign relations :: Soviet Union
• Soviet Union :: Foreign relations :: United States
• United States
• Soviet Union

Superpower illusions : how myths and false ideologies led America astray-- and how to return to reality by Jack F. Matlock. ISBN 9780300137613. Published by Yale University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.