In Uncertain Times : : American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 / / ed. by Jeffrey W. Legro, Melvyn P. Leffler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cumings, Bruce,; Edelman, Eric S.,; Leffler, Melvyn P.,; Legro, Jeffrey W.,; Mueller, John,; Sarotte, Mary Elise,; Slocombe, Walter B.,; Westad, Odd Arne,; Wohlforth, William C.,; Wolfowitz, Paul,; Zelikow, Philip,; Zoellick, Robert B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Leffler, Melvyn P.,; Legro, Jeffrey W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Navigating the Unknown
• 1. The Wall Comes Down: A Punctuational Moment
• 2. An Architecture of U.S. Strategy after the Cold War
• 3. Shaping the Future: Planning at the Pentagon, 1989-93
• 4. The Strange Career of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance
• 5. A Crisis of Opportunity: The Clinton Administration and Russia
• 6. U.S. Strategic Planning in 2001-02
• 7. Questing for Monsters to Destroy
• 8. The Assumptions Did It
• 9. Faulty Learning and Flawed Policies in Afghanistan and Iraq
• 10. How Did the Experts Do?
• Conclusion: Strategy in a Murky World
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors
• Index