Colin Powell - A Political Biography

Informationen zum Autor Christopher D. O'Sullivan teaches history at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937-1943, which won the American Historical Association's Gutenberg-e Prize in 2003, and The United Nations: A Concise History. Klappentext In this exploration of Colin Powell's career and character, Christopher D. O' Sullivan reveals several broad themes crucial to American foreign policy and yields insights into the evolution of American foreign and defense policy in the post-Vietnam, post-Cold War eras. In addition, O'Sullivan explores the conflicts and debates between different foreign policy ideologies such as neo-conservatism and realism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Education of a Soldier, 1937-1980Chapter 2: From the Pentagon to the White House, 1980-1987Chapter 3: National Security Advisor at the End of the Civil War, 1987-1989Chapter 4: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 1989-1993Chapter 5: The Military and Diplomacy After the Civil WarChapter 6: Secretary of StateChapter 7: Powell, Iraq, and the "Fog of War"Conclusion

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• Authors: &apos, O&apos, Christopher D O'Sullivan, Christopher D. O'Sullivan, Christopher D. O''sullivan, O'Sullivan Christopher D., Christopher D. sullivan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2010
• EAN: 9780742551879
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5187-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Biographies in American Foreign Policy; Biographies in American Foreign Policy
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