Pressestimmen
""Averting Global War" is an artful and arresting defense of the need for American policy-makers to adopt meaningful and wise strategies for handling the growing number of regional problems throughout the world. In a comprehensive manner, Hall Gardner demonstrates how violence and perhaps even wars among the major powers may result if the wrong approaches are taken to these growing challenges."--Robert Jackson, Author of "Temptations of Power: the ""US"" in Global Politics since 9/11"
"Hall Gardner zeroes in on the 'new world disorder, ' and alerts us to the geostrategic dangers inherent in our unsettled time."--Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., and Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute
Kurzbeschreibung
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.
Synopsis
This book articulates an ironic American strategy intended to transform disputes and avert the possibility of major power confrontation involving both clandestine and overt methods of warfare. It explores potential global flashpoints ripped from the headlines, giving readers a 'here and now' sense of politics and diplomacy. Written by an American author based in Europe, the book, though focusing on U.S. foreign policy, also presents a more international approach to the subjects in question.As per the reviewer's words, 'most of the author's analyses of the various conflicts are shrewd and on the mark, factually and analytically...and the significance of the subject matter speaks for itself'. "Averting Global War" examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy.
Über den Autor
Hall Gardner is Professor of Political Scienceat theAmerican University of Paris.
