Making War to Keep Peace: Trials and Errors in American Foreign Policy from Kuwait to Baghdad

by Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.

• ISBN13: 9780061373657
• ISBN10: 0061373656
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With the powerful words that marked her long and distinguished career, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick explores where America has gone wrong-and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. In Making War to Keep Peace, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN traces the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo to illuminate the dangerous shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious vision of a New World Order to the overambitious nation-building efforts of the Clinton administration. Kirkpatrick questions when, how, and why the United States should resort to military solutions-especially in light of the George W. Bush administration's challenging war in Iraq, about which Kirkpatrick shares her "grave reservations" for the first time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Iraq Invades Kuwait	p. 9
Saving Somalia	p. 59
Haitians' Right to Democracy?	p. 113
The Balkan Wars: Making War to Keep the Peace	p. 155
Kosovo	p. 239
Conclusion: Afghanistan and Iraq	p. 271
Postscript	p. 307
Appendix	p. 309
Notes	p. 313
Acknowledgments	p. 357
Index	p. 359
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