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One of the most significant areas of activity in the George Bush administration was foreign affairs. Drawing together participants as well as foreign policy scholars and journalists, Hofstra Universtiy organized the 1997 Conference on the Presidency of George Bush. This volume covers the key foreign affairs activities of the administration.
The essays examine major areas of the Bush foreign policy record. Included are papers on international trade, the Middle East, Latin America, Somalia, Bosnia, arms control, and U.S. base closing. Scholars, students, and other researchers involved with the policies of the Bush administration will find this a useful resource.
List of contents
Introduction
International TradePresident Bush's Trade Rhetoric: Retaining the Free Trade Paradigm in an Era of Managed Trade by Delia B. Conti
The Far EastTrade Policymaking in the Bush Administration: U.S.-Japan Trade and the GATT Uruguay Round Negotiations by Christopher C. Meyerson
Personal Diplomacy: The Middle East Peace ProcessIt Wasn't My Fault: Or, Why Saddam Surprised the Bush Administration and Invaded Kuwait by P. Edward Haley
The Arab-Israeli Conflict under President Bush by Samuel Segev
The Agent-Structure Question in Theory: President Bush's Role during the Persian Gulf Crisis by Steve A. Yetiv
Latin AmericaThe Bush Administration and Panama by Douglas Brinkley
The Failure of Cuba Policy by Jules N. LaRocque
President Bush, Congress, and the War Powers: Panama and the Persian Gulf by Duane Tananbaum
Student Panel Paper: Bush vs. Castro-America's Fight against the Banana Dictatorship by Derrick Bradford Wetherell and Michael J. McIsaac
Somalia and BosniaOperation Restore Hope: Somalia and the Frontiers of the New World Order by Stephen F. Burgess
Appointment in Sarajevo: George Bush, Yugoslavia, and the Prospects of Federalism by John E. Ullmann
Arms Control and ReductionArms Control and Military Preparedness in the Bush Administration by Martin E. Goldstein
The Post-Cold War Peace of Europe, 1989-1993 by Joseph P. Harahan
Defence Posture and Base ClosingsThe Rejection of a Cabinet Nomination: The Senate and John Tower by James D. King and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
The Bush Administration's Defense Policy: Transcending the Cold War by Earl C. Ravenal
Defence Cuts, Base Closings, and Conversion: Slow Reaction and Missed Opportunities by John E. Ullmann
Desert Shield and the Gulf WarThe Bush Just War Doctrine: Genesis and Application of the President's Moral Leadership in the Persian Gulf War by Daniel R. Heimbach
George Bush, Mass Nationalism, and the Gulf War by Lawrence Radway
Gulf War LegaciesAfter the War: President Bush and the Kurdish Uprising by Michael Gunter
Index
About the author
MEENA BOSE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is the author of
Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy (1998).
ROSANNA PEROTTI is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. She has published on U.S. immigration policy in
International Migration Review and
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
