American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War The Search for Consensus from Nixon to Clinton

Preface; Part One: The Rise and Fall of the Cold War Consensus; Chapter 1. In Search of Consensus; The Elements of Consensus; After Vietnam; After the Cold War; After September 11; Foreign Policy Legitimation; Part Two: American Foreign Policy After Vietnam; Chapter 2. The Nixon Administration; The New Majority; Peace with Honor; A Full Generation of Peace; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 3. The Carter Administration; The People's President; A Complex New World; The Arc of Crisis; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 4. The Reagan Administration; We the People; A Shining City on the Hill; The "Rescue Mission" and the "Democratic Resistance"; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Part Three: The Post-Cold War Interlude; Chapter 5. The Bush Administration; The Procedural President; From Containment to the New World Order; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 6. The Clinton Administration; The Governor-President; The Dilemmas of Armed Intervention; A Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement; A New Foreign Policy Consensus?; Part Four: The Global War on Terror; Chapter 7. The George W. Bush Administration; The Compassionate Conservative; 9/11 and Operation Enduring Freedom; A Strategy of Prevention and Enlargement; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Part Five: Conclusions; Chapter 8. American Foreign Policy Since Nixon; The Nixon Administration; The Carter Administration; The Reagan Administration; The Bush Administration; The Clinton Administration; The George W. Bush Administration Bibliography; Index

Biography

Richard A. Melanson is the author or editor of several books on American foreign policy including Writing History and Making Policy: The Cold Wan Vietnam, and Revisionism and Re-Evaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the 1950s. He has taught international politics, public opinion and U.S. foreign policy, and American Grand Strategy at the National Defense University, Brown University, Kenyon College, and the University of California at Los Angeles.