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A thoughtful retrospective of America's wars of the 20th century, this text examines the process of going to war and seeks patterns showing how and why the nation becomes involved in hostilities.

During Bush's presidency (1989-93), the Berlin Wall fell, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, Germany was reunified, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Looking at the Bush administration's handling of the end of the Cold War, the author argues that Bush actually made a fundamental shift in foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union.

The presidential election of 1952, unlike most others before and since, was dominated by foreign policy. In this study, Ronald R. Krebs shows that two very different images of Eastern Europe's ultimate status competed to guide American policy during this period: Finlandization and rollback.