![]() BushĬhapter 16: “To Make Kinder the Face of the Nation and Gentler the Face of the World”: Humanitarian Leadership During the Presidency of George H.W. Power for Human Rights and Humanitarian PurposesĬhapter 15: Somalia Revisited: President Bush and Operation Restore HopeĬhapter 16: “To Make Kinder the Face of the Nation and Gentler the Face of the World”: Humanitarian Leadership During the Presidency of George H.W. Bush’s Historic Contributions to Open TradeĬhapter 13: President George H.W Bush and the United NationsĬhapter 14: President George H.W Bush and the Exercise of U.S. Bush: Politics and Realism in the Middle EastĬhapter 10: Constructing the Alliance to Liberate KuwaitĬhapter 11: Saving the Kurds: Humanitarian Intervention in Northern IraqĬhapter 12: President George H.W. Bush’s China PolicyĬhapter 8: “This Will Not Stand”: the Liberation of KuwaitĬhapter 9: George H.W. Bush: A Stroke of Luck for GermanyĬhapter 7: President George H.W. He also served eight years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Ĭhapter 1: Ten Foreign Policy Maxims of a Great PresidentĬhapter 2: The Compassionate Realist: An OverviewĬhapter 3: The Accidental Diplomat: Staffing Foreign PolicyĬhapter 4: Remaking of the NSC Staff: Bush, Scowcroft and Institutional ReformĬhapter 5: The End of the Cold War and the Reunification of GermanyĬhapter 6: President George H.W. Secretary of Transportation, and served President Ronald Reagan as a Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs. Card served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush, where Card became the second longest tenured White House Chief of Staff. Card has also held numerous positions at senior levels of government under three Presidents throughout the years, including Chief of Staff to President George W. He continues to serve as Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world, a position he assumed in January 2018. was named Interim CEO of the George & Barbara Bush Foundation in June 2020. Currently, he is an executive professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.Īndrew H. relief effort in several humanitarian emergencies. Bush Administration, where he oversaw the U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) during the George H.W. Natsios served as Director of USAID’s Office of U.S. Should America assert its military power independently or work through global institutions and international concerts Should it promote democracy abroad or. At a time when the old American-led post-World War II order is eroding or even collapsing, this book reminds readers of the difference American leadership in the world can make and how a president can manage a highly successful foreign policy.Īndrew S. They shed new light on and analyze President Bush’s role in world events during this historic period, his style of diplomacy, the organization and functioning of his foreign policy team, the consequences of his decisions, and his leadership skills. This book brings together a distinguished collection of foreign policy practitioners – career and political – who participated in the unfolding of international events as part the Bush administration to provide insider perspective by the people charged with carrying them out. Bush dealt with foreign policy challenges that would cement the post-Cold War order for a generation. There’s not much ideological coherence, but there is plenty of lively debate and rich food for thought.From the fall of the Soviet Union to the Gulf War, the presidency of George H. Should America assert its military power independently or work through global institutions and international concerts? Should it promote democracy abroad or back stable autocracies? Is the nation-state essential or irrelevant? The contributors run the gamut from hawks like James Kurth-who wants America to be a “Boss of Bosses” and “ruthlessly devastate” its opponents-to doves like Francis Fukuyama, who endorses “foreign policy as social work.” In thought-provoking pieces, David Kennedy calls for a draft lottery to dispel an incipient “American Caesarism” facilitated by the professional military, and Niall Ferguson throws a contrarian curveball asserting the impossibility of fighting a pre-emptive war against terrorism. But there are significant points of contention. The 13 academic and public intellectuals convened in this collection of essays on geopolitics agree on some things: the importance of American leadership the desirability of free trade the threats posed by global warming, Islamist radicalism and nuclear proliferation the ineptitude, if not criminality, of Bush’s foreign policy.
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