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Author: Michael Arthur Ledeen Publisher: Scribner Book Company ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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The author worked for Alexander Haig and was on the White House staff as a high-level messenger and consultant during the early 1980s. Based on his astute observation and interviews with some key participants, he explores the environment that made the Iran-Contra connection possible. ISBN 0-684-18994-1: $19.95.
Author: Michael Arthur Ledeen Publisher: Scribner Book Company ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
The author worked for Alexander Haig and was on the White House staff as a high-level messenger and consultant during the early 1980s. Based on his astute observation and interviews with some key participants, he explores the environment that made the Iran-Contra connection possible. ISBN 0-684-18994-1: $19.95.
Author: O. Seliktar Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137010886 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of interest to the United States: nuclear proliferation, revolutionary export and support for international terrorism, efforts to undermine the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and violations of human rights. It compares developments in Iran to their perception in Washington, providing the clearest picture available yet of the discrepancies between the complex and elusive Iranian reality and its understanding in the United States.
Author: Peter Wallison Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0786728450 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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An icon of the twentieth century, Ronald Reagan has earned a place among the most popular and successful U.S. presidents. In this compelling firsthand account of Reagan's presidency, Peter J. Wallison, former White House Counsel to President Reagan, asserts that Reagan took office with a fully developed public philosophy and strategy for governing that was unique among modern presidents. "I am not a great man," Reagan once said, "just committed to great ideas." Wallison shows how Reagan's unyielding attachment to certain key ideas -- communicated through his speeches -- created a cohesive administration and revived the spirit of the nation. Reagan limited his personal efforts to those issues he considered central to his presidency, choosing to delegate to his cabinet and staff those matters he viewed as secondary to his agenda. This leadership style was responsible for Reagan's accomplishments, but also for his missteps and the criticism he received from his detractors. During his presidency, Reagan experienced both enormous success -- in the unprecedented growth of the economy, the first arms reduction agreement with the former Soviet Union, and the revival of confidence in America -- and near disaster in the Iran-Contra affair. In Ronald Reagan , Wallison describes what it was like to be on Reagan's White House staff and how Reagan's attachment to principle produced both the best and worst days of his presidency.
Author: Robert A. Strong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317473264 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 308
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This book's unique combination of case studies and commentaries provides the basis for a systematic discussion of the role of individual leaders and complex institutions in U.S. foreign policy making. The case studies present routine and urgent, controversial and consensus-driven decisions in nine presidential administrations--"from Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945, to George W. Bush's responses to international terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Each chapter includes essential background information, a chronology of events, and primary source documents. Through all these elements, even students with little or no background in history will gain a new understanding of how presidents, institutions, and issues all shape American foreign policy.
Author: Shaun P. McCarthy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429787340 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 311
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First published in 1998, this work is a study of the relationship between intelligence and policy and focuses on the function of intelligence in crisis management. It provides an integrated approach to the theory of the intelligence process and the principles of crisis management. It identifies those factors that influence the producer-consumer relationship within the context of the Traditionalist vs. Activist approaches, i.e. The Kent-Kendall debate. New insight into the practical limitations of the Traditionalist approach to intelligence is provided. Using terrorism as a crisis phenomenon, the study analyses the function of intelligence and the reasons behind the intelligence and the reasons behind the intelligence failures during the Reagan Administration’s Foreign Policy initiatives in Lebanon, 1981-1985. With its focus on intelligence theory and management, as well as crisis management and policy making, this book will appeal to academics, scholars, intelligence practitioners, historians, policy makers and business management professionals. Although the work focuses on the U.S. intelligence community and the behavioural trends within American intelligence and security organisations, the principles and lessons learned can be applied to business and government in other democracies.
Author: VINZI ISAAC Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 366
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The dust is about to settle down on medieval India. The Mughal enterprise is being firmly set on its foundations by Akbar the great. Though starting out ruthlessly to conquer all of Hindustan, he mellows down to offer the olive branch to those who would become servants of Babur's dynasty. Rajput king, Maharana Prathap Singh of Mewar decides to look the Mughals in the eye and take the bull by the horns. The die is cast. As the conquering juggernaut rolls, will the Rajput king be able to stem the tide against an all consuming power that threatens to swallow the entirety of the undivided Hind ?
Author: Christopher Hemmer Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791492222 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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As policy makers turn to the lessons of history, to which lessons will they turn? This book offers a model of the analogical reasoning process that helps answer the important question of why some historical analogies are seen as relevant for later decisions, while others are ignored. It explores the previously neglected possibility that analogies can do more than simply advance the pre-existing interests of decision makers, but can also determine the very interests policy makers seek to further. The usefulness of this approach in impacting the lessons of history is demonstrated by examining American policy toward Iran concerning American hostages from 1979 to 1987, detailing both the Carter administration's policy during the Hostage Crisis and the Reagan administration's policy that resulted in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Author: Kenneth Katzman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000306968 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 175
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This book shows that the revolutionary guard has resisted professionalization on the key aspect of war decision making. It explains how the Guard was able to resist ideological dilution despite its need to adopt a rationalized and complex organizational structure.
Author: Richard C. Thornton Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1625172249 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 563
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History of Reagan's victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War and his defeat at the hands of his domestic political opponents, who sought accommodation with Moscow over victory. The book traces the climax of a two-decade-long struggle within the American establishment over strategy, known as the Iran-Contra scandal. As detailed in this volume, the scandal masked both the president's political defeat and the fundamental change that occurred in American national security strategy.
Author: Michael Arthur Ledeen
Author: Michael Arthur Ledeen
Author: O. Seliktar
Author: Peter Wallison
Author: Robert A. Strong
Author: Shaun P. McCarthy
Author: Linda Robinson
Author: VINZI ISAAC
Author: Christopher Hemmer
Author: Kenneth Katzman
Author: Richard C. Thornton