Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

In this encounter the realities prevailed.". Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo had no strategic or economic importance for the United States, which intervened in all of them for purely humanitarian reasons. When the Cold War concluded, however, it embarked on military interventions in places where American interests were not at stake. None of them achieved its aims.Mission Failure describes and explains how such missions came to be central to America's post-Cold War foreign policy, even in relations with China and Russia in the early 1990s and in American diplomacy in the Middle East, and how they all failed. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, tu

"Mission Failure is going to be one of the most talked about foreign policy books of the yeara must-read." -- Thomas Friedman, The New York Times"Specialists and general readers alike will appreciate his sure historical grasp, evenhanded assignment of fault, careful assessment of shifting domestic political considerations, and understanding of the foreign cultural barriers that so frustrated American intentions. Michael Mandelbaum is one of the country's most acute analysts of US foreign policy, and his book should be required reading for policymakers today." - Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last Man. It is a provocative must-read that will be of interest not only to specialists, but to the general public in whose name the cascading foreign policy failure has been carried out." - John Mueller, author of Chasing Ghosts: The

Efrem Sepulveda said If at first you don't succeed. Michael Mandelbaum has written a well thought out book on the failure of American interventions during the presidencies of Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama which commenced after the end of the Cold War. In summary, Mandelbaum states that all of the failed interventions in the Balkans, Somalia, the Middle Ea. I'm pleased to have read it at this time because of I'm not an historian, actually little more than an average reader, and I've never before submitted a review through Amazon, but I simply must say something about the importance of this book. I've found so much vital background information in this cogent presentation. I'm pleased to have read it at this time b. Excellent Book But Should Be Read Alongside Bacevich's "American Empire" "Mission Failure" pretends to be a book organized around a central argument: that American foreign policy was set loose by the collapse of the Soviet Union and became a grand global drive to transform the domestic institutions and politics of foreign countries. In truth, the book is a set of loosely-connected

Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author or co-author of sixteen books, including The Ideas That Conquered the World, The Meaning of Sports, The Frugal Superpower, and, with Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times Best Seller That Used To Be Us.. Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A