Böcker av Alexander Moens

Originally published in 1990, this volume looks at the Carter administration and the policy decisions his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the Secretary of Defense Harold Brown during the presidency. Referring to case studies of Carter administration decision making which in the author's view demonstrate Brzezinski's transformation from brokerage to an advocate role- SALT II in early 1977, Ogaden War in 1977-78, the normalisation of US relations with China (1978) and the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1978-79.

What kind of presidency and foreign policy follows when you combine a confident, activist, and moralist president, who also has a sharp political game plan and who sticks as loyally to personal relations as he wants his advisers to stick to him? Alexander Moens offers one of the first systematic explanations of Bush's foreign policy by.