The Faces of Power

This exploration of US policy debates and decisions from the end of World War II to the present day has been revised to include new information on the Bush and Clinton presidencies. It focuses on the basic premises of US policy-makers concerning the country's international interests and goals. In the new edition of this major work, Seyom Brown brings his authoritative account of United States foreign policy completely up-to-date with analyses of the Truman administration to the Clinton administration. Most notably, Brown provides an insightful overview of the last three presidencies, beginning with an expanded treatment of the Reagan years to the first major scholarly assessment of Bush's foreign policies to Clinton's early ambivalence toward grappling with the dilemmas of the post-Cold War world.