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The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose

by David C. Hendrickson, Robert W. Tucker. 228 pgs.

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Contributors:

   David C. Hendrickson, Robert W. Tucker

Publisher:

   Council on Foreign Relations Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1992
Subjects:   Persian Gulf War, 1991, World Politics--1985-1995, United States--Foreign Relations--1989-1993
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction: Two Victories 1
PART ONE America 's Road to the New World Order
1. The Bush Administration and the End of Containment 21
2. The New World Order 29
3. Aggression and Collective Security 43
4. Visions of Order: Past and Present 53
PART TWO : An Autopsy
5. The Costs of the War 73
6. The Justification for the War 80
7. The Motive for the War 86
8. The Case for Punitive Containment 94
9. Proliferation and Preventive War 111
10. Time as an Enemy 120
11. Justice and the War 132
12. The Responsibilities of Victory 142
13. The Redemption of Vietnam 152
14. The Faustian Bargain 160
PART THREE American Security and the National Purpose
15. The Original Understanding 165
16. The Age of Uncertainty 177
17. Consensus 183
18. 189
19. Paradoxes of the 192
20. Renovation 198
Notes 212
Index 220
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The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose
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