One of the most significant areas of activity in the George Bush administration was foreign affairs. Drawing together participants as well as foreign policy scholars and journalists, Hofstra Universtiy organized the 1997 Conference on the Presidency of George Bush. This volume covers the key foreign affairs activities of the administration.
The essays examine major areas of the Bush foreign policy record. Included are papers on international trade, the Middle East, Latin America, Somalia, Bosnia, arms control, and U.S. base closing. Scholars, students, and other researchers involved with the policies of the Bush administration will find this a useful resource.
Introduction International Trade President Bush's Trade Rhetoric: Retaining the Free Trade Paradigm in an Era of Managed Trade by Delia B. Conti The Far East Trade Policymaking in the Bush Administration: U.S.-Japan Trade and the GATT Uruguay Round Negotiations by Christopher C. Meyerson Personal Diplomacy: The Middle East Peace Process It Wasn't My Fault: Or, Why Saddam Surprised the Bush Administration and Invaded Kuwait by P. Edward Haley The Arab-Israeli Conflict under President Bush by Samuel Segev The Agent-Structure Question in Theory: President Bush's Role during the Persian Gulf Crisis by Steve A. Yetiv Latin America The Bush Administration and Panama by Douglas Brinkley The Failure of Cuba Policy by Jules N. LaRocque President Bush, Congress, and the War Powers: Panama and the Persian Gulf by Duane Tananbaum Student Panel Paper: Bush vs. Castro-America's Fight against the Banana Dictatorship by Derrick Bradford Wetherell and Michael J. McIsaac Somalia and Bosnia Operation Restore Hope: Somalia and the Frontiers of the New World Order by Stephen F. Burgess Appointment in Sarajevo: George Bush, Yugoslavia, and the Prospects of Federalism by John E. Ullmann Arms Control and Reduction Arms Control and Military Preparedness in the Bush Administration by Martin E. Goldstein The Post-Cold War Peace of Europe, 1989-1993 by Joseph P. Harahan Defence Posture and Base Closings The Rejection of a Cabinet Nomination: The Senate and John Tower by James D. King and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr. The Bush Administration's Defense Policy: Transcending the Cold War by Earl C. Ravenal Defence Cuts, Base Closings, and Conversion: Slow Reaction and Missed Opportunities by John E. Ullmann Desert Shield and the Gulf War The Bush Just War Doctrine: Genesis and Application of the President's Moral Leadership in the Persian Gulf War by Daniel R. Heimbach George Bush, Mass Nationalism, and the Gulf War by Lawrence Radway Gulf War Legacies After the War: President Bush and the Kurdish Uprising by Michael Gunter Index
