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Barbara Bush : a memoir
\"Mrs. Bush offers a ... portrait of her life in and out of the White House, from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye, New York, to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush, to her role as First Lady of the United States\"--Back cover.
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America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions impose on its freedom of action. He has insisted that an America unbound is a more secure America. How did a man once mocked for knowing little about the world come to be a foreign policy revolutionary? In America Unbound, Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay dismiss claims that neoconservatives have captured the heart and mind of the president. They show that George W. Bush has been no one's puppet. He has been a strong and decisive leader with a coherent worldview that was evident even during the 2000 presidential campaign. Daalder and Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with significant risks. Raw power alone is not enough to preserve and extend America's security and prosperity in the modern world. The United States often needs the help of others to meet the challenges it faces overseas. But Bush's revolutionary impulse has stirred great resentment abroad. At some point, Daalder and Lindsay warn, Bush could find that America's friends and allies refuse to follow his lead. America will then stand alone-a great power unable to achieve its most important goals.
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Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics
Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, regionally, and globally. This book outlines how state leaders may appeal to particular hegemonic masculinites in their attempt to \"sell\" wars and thereby camouflage salient political practices in the process. Messerschmidt offers a fresh historical perspective on the war against Iraq over an 18-year period, and he argues that we cannot truly understand this war outside of its gendered (masculine) and historical context.
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The Gulf War
President George H. W. Bush assumed office at a critical
juncture, as the Cold War came to an end and the world shifted to a
new era of international relations. In The Gulf War ,
Spencer Bakich argues that Bush fashioned a grand strategy to bring
about a New World Order designed to transform international
politics by focusing on great power cooperation through the United
Nations. The Persian Gulf War became the chance for Bush to put his
strategy into action. This latest volume in the Landmark
Presidential Decision series offers a fresh and concise look at
President Bush's strategic decision making and his choice to wage
war against Iraq.
Bakich, an expert in wartime strategy, traces the ideas and
actions of Bush's new world order strategy between 1989 and 1991,
which had a profound impact on the diplomacy of Desert Shield and
the warfighting of Desert Storm. Bush's strategic beliefs contained
core elements of Wilsonian internationalism-specifically its goals
of promoting democracy, conducting multilateral diplomacy through
international institutions, and transforming the United Nations
into the collective security institution that its founders
envisioned. His \"New World Order\" was not mere political
sloganeering intended to bolster support for the Persian Gulf War
among a skeptical American public. Rather, Bush intended the Gulf
War to exercise and firmly establish the UN's collective security
function in the post-Cold War era.
In this bold new interpretation of George H. W. Bush's foreign
policy, Bakich challenges conventional wisdom, arguing that Bush's
New World Order was carefully defined and had a comprehensive
logic. He shows how Bush's strategic beliefs oriented American
statecraft in peace and war. Bush's grand strategy was remarkably
coherent, powerfully affecting how his administration decided to go
to war to evict Iraq from Kuwait, how it waged war in the Persian
Gulf, and ultimately the reasons why the fighting was terminated
before the coalition's war aims were completely achieved. In the
end, the Gulf War's outcome exposed faulty assumptions about the
international system that underpinned the strategy, weakening the
president's fidelity to his own approach. Ultimately, the Gulf War
did usher in a New World Order, but not the one Bush had
envisioned.
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Hereditary Democracy
Hereditary democracy is the phenomenon whereby the children, spouses, or other close family members of powerful politicians are themselves elected to high office. It is a ubiquitous feature of democracy worldwide. What causes it? What are its consequences? To explain hereditary democracy, the article develops a framework that looks at both supply- and demand-side factors, with respect to both the voting masses and party elites, that contribute to an inherited incumbency advantage. The article argues that the practice of hereditary democracy should be condemned. While it has helped women leaders to reach high office in unlikely places, it artificially shrinks the pool of political talent, can lead to disappointed voter expectations, and is fundamentally unfair.
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The madness of George W. Bush : a reflection of our collective psychosis
In this ground-breaking work, Levy explores whether the madness that George W. Bush has fallen into is showing us something particularly important about ourselves. What if Bush's madness is a reflection of our own potential for madness? What if Bush has been collectively dreamed up to play out, in full-bodied form, a pathological role existing deep within the collective unconscious of all humanity? Though this book centers on George Bush, it is ultimately about ourselves.
Power without Constraint
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama criticized the George W. Bush administration for its unrestrained actions in matters of national security. In secret Justice Department memos, President Bush’s officials had claimed for the executive branch total authority to use military force in response to threats of terrorism. They set aside laws made by Congress, even criminal laws prohibiting torture and warrantless surveillance. Candidate Obama promised to restore the rule of law and make a clean break with the Bush approach. President Obama has not done so. Why? In a thorough comparison of the Bush and Obama administrations’ national security policies, Chris Edelson demonstrates that President Obama and his officials have used softer rhetoric and toned-down legal arguments, but in key areas—military action, surveillance, and state secrets—they have simply found new ways to assert power without meaningful constitutional or statutory constraints. Edelson contends that this legacy of the two immediately post-9/11 presidencies raises crucial questions for future presidents, Congress, the courts, and American citizens. Where is the political will to restore a balance of powers among branches of government and adherence to the rule of law? What are the limits of authority regarding presidential national security power? Have national security concerns created a permanent shift to unconstrained presidential power?
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