“It is possible that had the United States heeded the warnings of Mikhail Gorbachev (in respect to American support for the Afghan mujahedin, who were once upon a time depicted as "freedom fighters"), the horrors of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon might never have taken place.”
Contemporary international events, and indeed even the US presidential election, demonstrate the continuing need for debate and discourse over the direction and emphases of US foreign policy. Following the success of the original hardback publication, this revised and updated paperback re-conceptualizes the 'war on terrorism' and analyzes the nature of American domestic and international policy-making within the context of historical and structural constraints upon US policy. American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terrorism' addresses a wide range of themes that are crucial to understanding the 9/11 crisis and to formulating an affective American and global foreign and security policy to deal with that crisis. This study should be read by contemporary policy makers and scholars of foreign policy.
