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04828aam a2200589 i 4500 001 183044A86B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 160125s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016000678 020 $a 0190469471 020 $a 9780190469474 035 $a (OCoLC)919682885 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UOK $d CDX $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E840 .M347 2016 082 00 $a 327.73009/04 $2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Mandelbaum, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a Mission failure : $b America and the world in the post-Cold War era / $c Michael Mandelbaum. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a ix, 485 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 2 $a "In Mission Failure, Mandelbaum argues that, in the past 25 years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a significant shift. Historically, U.S. foreign policy was oriented primarily toward threat reduction, but the U.S. military has turned in recent years to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political. Mandelbaum argues that ideologically-driven foreign policy--that which seeks to reconstruct societies along Western lines--generally leads to mission failure"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 2 $a "America's decision in 1991 to provide air defense to oppressed Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War ushered in an entirely new era in American foreign policy. Until that moment, the United States had only used military power to defend against threats that its leaders thought would either weaken America's position in the world order or--in the worst case--threaten the homeland. But with this offer to the Kurds, the United States for the first time ever was now militarily involved in states that represented no threat, and with missions that were largely humanitarian and socio-political. After establishing the Kurdish no-fly zone, the US in quick succession intervened in Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo. Even after 9/11, it decided that it had a duty to not just invade Iraq, but reconstruct Iraqi society along Western lines. In Mission Failure, the eminent scholar Michael Mandelbaum provides a comprehensive history of post-Cold War American foreign policy to show why this new approach was doomed to failure. Mandelbaum argues that all major foreign policy initiatives, both before and after September 11, 2001, had a basic feature in common: all were missions to transform other countries along Western lines, and all failed. This shift in policy did result in several positive effects, including a broad expansion of democracy and strong growth in the global economy. However, the U.S. had neither the capacity nor the will to change societies that were dramatically different from our own. Over two decades later, we can see the wreckage: a broken Iraq, a teetering Afghanistan, and a still-impoverished Haiti. Mandelbaum does not deny that American foreign policy has always had a strong ideological component. Instead, he argues that focusing solely on ideology at the expense of realism generally leads to mission failure"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 2 $a China, the Global Economy, and Russia -- Humanitarian Intervention -- The War on Terror and Afghanistan -- Iraq -- The Middle East -- The Restoration. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1989- 651 0 $a United States $x Philosophy. $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Ideology $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Realism $x Political aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Military policy. 650 0 $a Humanitarian intervention $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Humanitarian intervention $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01910431 650 7 $a Humanitarian intervention. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963572 650 7 $a Ideology $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00966918 650 7 $a Military policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021386 650 7 $a Realism $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091230 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a Since 1900 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211030422.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006094755.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20160903011049.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826050427.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=183044A86B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search