From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World

摘要

[...] what has emerged to take the place of Cold War containment and consensus in American foreign policy? [...] Brands comes down squarely in the middle in answering the two central questions of his study As the American experience suggests, he argues, this quest for an all -encompassing doctrine is probably quixotic; the very expansiveness of U.S. goals makes unlikely that there is a single comprehensive thread binding all of Washington's aims.