Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws America's Search for a New Foreign Policy [Paperback]

In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially-became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold War levels of military sping.

Michael Klareis the author of books includingResource Wars,Blood and Oil,Rising Powers,Shrinking PlanetandThe Race for What's Left. A regular contributor toHarper's,Foreign Affairs, and theLos Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst forThe Nationand the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.