Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War
By Stanley Hoffman.
Description
Describing the 30-year legacy of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II, this book probes the inadequacy both of the Cold War strategies of the 1950's and 1960's and of the balance-of-power alternative devised by Henry Kissinger in the early 1970's. Professor Hoffmann provides an analysis of U.S. diplomacy abroad and in terms of domestic impact, and he examines the reasons for the failure of the U.S. in Vietnam. This is followed by a critique of Henry Kissinger's ideas, methods, styles, and policies and an appraisal of the condition in which U.S. foreign pol...
ISBN(s)
0070292078, 9780070292079
