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Bush League Diplomacy

How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk

By: Craig R. Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman

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Bush League Diplomacy

How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk

By: Craig R. Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman

Fifty years ago, the United States founded the United Nations, promoted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, used economic aid as a tool for creating stability, and viewed collective agreements and cooperation as the principal methods of sharing the costs and the risks of security. Today, under the leadership of George W. Bush, the main tool of foreign policy is military force, not diplomacy. America is going it alone, and paying the price, both abroad and at home.In this comprehensive critique of the Bush administration's handling of international relations, Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman, both senior fellows at the Center for International Policy, demonstrate the folly and the dangers of abandoning diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of conducting U.S. foreign policy. The authors argue that a policy of bullying will sow seeds of resentment and mistrust among our potential allies and encourage nations hostile to our interests to seek nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction as a last-resort method of protecting themselves against a belligerent world power. Eisendrath and Goodman foresee the international community becoming dangerously unstable, not more secure, under a Pax Americana maintained by military might.On the domestic front, the authors warn that a policy emphasizing the power of the executive branch at the expense of Congress, and suspending long-standing civil rights under the pretext of national security, threatens the Constitution. Finally, the economic effect of huge military expenditures financed by deficit spending has the potential of eroding domestic tranquility for decades.This trenchant review by two experienced foreign policy analysts will serve as a wake-up call to the dangerous militarism at the heart of the Bush agenda.Craig Eisendrath (Philadelphia, PA), a former diplomat, is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.; an adjunct professor a Temple University; the author (with Melvin A. Goodman and Gerald E. Marsh) of The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion, among other books; and the editor of National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War.Melvin A. Goodman (Washington, D.C.), a former CIA official, is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy; chairman of the International Relations Department at the National War College; and an author of books on defense and international relations.

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268

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Prometheus Books

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1616140003

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9781616140007

Crisis Game

A Novel of the Cold War

By: Craig R. Eisendrath

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Crisis Game

A Novel of the Cold War

By: Craig R. Eisendrath

Four members of the State Department team play a war game on the fringes of the Vietnam conflict--and find the rules between games and reality blurring into deadly territory.

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178

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Sunstone Press

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0865343330

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9780865343337

BEYOND PERMANENCE

THE GREAT IDEAS OF THE WEST

By: Craig Eisendrath

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BEYOND PERMANENCE

THE GREAT IDEAS OF THE WEST

By: Craig Eisendrath

Beyond Permanence: The Great Ideas of the West covers the full range of Western thought. Th e fi rst part reviews Western thought from its earliest beginnings in the civilization of Sumer through the philosophy of Hegel. After Sumer, it covers Egypt, Judaism, Classical philosophy focusing on Plato and Aristotle, Christianity and the Gnostics, the medieval church and the mystics, and the fi nal attempt by philosophers like Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant to “pin down” the world in a comprehensive philosophy. Th e aim was permanence of explanation describing a world of permanence whose actions refl ected the essential nature of its constituents. Th e second part moves into the modern age with the new physics and biology and the philosophies of William James and Alfred North Whitehead. It shows, for example, how the mind is not the permanent soul, but is rather the manifestation of the body, particularly the brain. Th rough the work of John Dewey and others, it outlines a new activism whereby people don’t accept society as a permanent order, but think of it as constantly subject to improvement. We are not “in” society, but society is in us, and is open to our needs and desires.

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369

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456858114

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9781456858117

The Phantom Defense

America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion

By: Craig Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman,Gerald E. Marsh

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The Phantom Defense

America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion

By: Craig Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman,Gerald E. Marsh

Annotation Demonstrates how, rather than enhancing American national security, a national missile defense would destroy it by provoking a new arms race.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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027597183X

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9780275971830

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Bush League Diplomacy

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Crisis Game

Crisis Game

BEYOND PERMANENCE

BEYOND PERMANENCE

The Phantom Defense

The Phantom Defense

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