Publisher's Synopsis
A study of George Bush's foreign policy. Using government documents and memoirs of key policy-makers, Steven Hurst provides a detailed account of the foreign policy-making processes of the Bush administration, revealing how this much-criticized administration dealt effectively and skilfully with the massive upheavals associated with the end of the Cold War and began to shape a coherent US foreign policy for the post-Cold War era.;In addition to providing insights into those policy areas which have already been the subject of critical attention, including relations with the USSR, German reunification and the Persian Gulf Crisis, the book highlights neglected fields such as international economic policy and US-Latin American relations where the administration made substantial, but often overlooked, achievements. Finally, the author addresses the much-derided concept of the New World Order. He demonstrates that far from being a meaningless phrase dreamt up by Bush during the Gulf Crisis and disappearing thereafter, the New World Order actually represented a coherent strategy founded in American values and foreign policy traditions and forming a logical and sustainable basis for US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.
