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03046aam a2200421 i 4500 001 39534AAE5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 191018t20202020enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019038162 020 $a 0521136768 020 $a 9780521136761 020 $a 0521199875 020 $a 9780521199872 035 $a (OCoLC)1127069963 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YDX $d VLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E840 L965 2020 100 1 $a Lynch, Timothy J., $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a In the shadow of the Cold War : $b American foreign policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump / $c Timothy J. Lynch, University of Melbourne. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 261 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge Essential Histories 520 $a "This book offers a bold reinterpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and reargue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it. When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared worse. This book tells the story not of a revolution in American foreign policy, but of its essentially continuous character from one era to the next. While there were many setbacks between the fall of Soviet communism and the opening years of the Trump administration, from Rwanda to 9/11 and Iraq to Syria, Lynch demonstrates that the United States remained the world's dominant power"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: in the shadow of the Cold War -- 1. George H. W. Bush: new world order, old world president, 1989-1992 -- 2. Bill Clinton: new think, 1993-1996 -- 3. Bill Clinton: the return of old think, 1997-2000 -- 4. George W. Bush: a new Cold War, 2001-2004 -- 5. George W. Bush: Truman redux, 2005-2008 -- 6. Barack Obama's flexible response, 2009-2012 -- 7. Barack Obama's soft containment, 2013-2017 -- Conclusion: Donald Trump and the end of the Cold War shadow? 651 0 $a United States $x Decision making. $y 1989- $x Decision making. 650 0 $a Cold War. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations administration. 611 27 $a Cold War (1945-1989) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754978 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lynch, Timothy J., 1969- $t In the shadow of the Cold War $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; NewYork, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 $z 9781139027120 $w (DLC) 2019038163 830 0 $a Cambridge essential histories 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031920.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015732.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=39534AAE5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search