... US policy USSR policy international politics foreign policy What is to be taken away from this analysis? There are two main sets of conclusions that come out of this whole story, one historical and the other having to do with more basic conceptual issues. With respect to the former, this book has...

...This chapter demonstrates how, at secretary of state Cyrus Vance's urging, US policy for North–South negotiations came to focus on two “practical” development strategies: basic needs and appropriate technology transfer. It recalls how the United States found some support for these policies...

...This chapter focuses on the indirect rule in the Caribbean and Central America (CCA). It explains that the US policy in the CCA led to a century or more of brutal authoritarian repression and anti-Americanism. The United States mostly ruled indirectly while allying with local elites who...

...This chapter looks into Chilean records of the evolution of the US policy in Chile. These records reflected the Reagan administration's ideology, national security goals, and political realities in Chile and Latin America. The US–Chilean relations were defined mostly by disillusion due to Chile's...

... demanded much of his attention. For the rest of his life, Kennan was critical and dismissive of China and insistent that Japan be the cornerstone of US policy in the Far East. Indeed, he regarded Japan as the key to holding the Soviet Union at bay. As director of the PPS, Kennan argued forcefully...

...This chapter explores the influence of the United States amidst the decision-making processes in Japan, Indonesia, Egypt, and Cuba in joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). It cites the significance of US diplomacy and US policy as decisive factors in the ratification...

...This chapter examines debates over US policy in the summer of 2006, focusing particularly on the unhappy results of military efforts to tamp down violence in Baghdad. Two major military operations—Operations Together Forward I and II—were launched, intended, as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs...