Making War to Keep Peace: Trials and Errors in American Foreign Policy from Kuwait to Baghdad

Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.

ISBN 10: 0061373656 / ISBN 13: 9780061373657

Published by Harper Perennial, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making War to Keep Peace: Trials and Errors in American Foreign Policy from Kuwait to Baghdad
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061373656
• ISBN 13: 9780061373657
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With the powerful words that marked her long and distinguished career, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick explores where America has gone wrong—and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. In Making War to Keep Peace, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN traces the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo to illuminate the dangerous shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious vision of a New World Order to the overambitious nation-building efforts of the Clinton administration. Kirkpatrick questions when, how, and why the United States should resort to military solutions—especially in light of the George W. Bush administration's challenging war in Iraq, about which Kirkpatrick shares her "grave reservations" for the first time.

About the Author

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985 and a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. She was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the founder of Empower America, and a professor of government at Georgetown University. She died in December 2006.