Averting Global War - Gardner, H.

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Résumé :
Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing _war on terrorism_; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; the feud between Israel and the Palestinians; the widening _zone of conflict_ from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; the global ramifications of North Korea_s nuclear program and China_s claims to Taiwan; Venezuela_s _Bolivarian Revolution_ and the _war on drugs_ in Latin America, the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the US. The book_s goal is to articulate an irenic American strategy intended to resolve, or at least transform, a number of these disputes and conflicts so as to prevent them from further _deepening_ or _widening__and to avert the real possibility of major power confrontation involving both clandestine and overt methods of warfare.

Biographie:
Hall Gardner is Professor of Political Scienceat theAmerican University of Paris....

Sommaire:
Introduction: Crying Wolf Once Again? *?Triptych of Terrorism?*?The Un-Coordinated NATO-EU Double Enlargement: Toward the Isolation of Russia? * Iraq: Sinking Deeper into Mesopotamian Quicksand * Iran: Nuclear High Tension and Holocaust Polemics: A _New Diplomatic Offensive_ or _Cruise Missile Diplomacy_??*?Israel and Palestine: Toward Intra-Palestinian Strife, a Third Intifada,?Or Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation? *An Ever Widening Zone of Conflict: From Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa * North Korea: Beyond _Backdoor_ Multilateralism * China and Blue Water Dreams: Toward a Sino-Russian Alliance? *?Three Dimensions of _Montezuma_s Revenge_: Hugo Ch?vez_s Bolivarian Vision, _War on Drugs,_ _Illegal_ Immigration *?American Hypertrophy and Strategic Options: Toward a Geostrategy for Global Peace