U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World: A Post-cold War Assessment: A Post-cold War Assessment [Hardcover]

The contributors to this work examine the evolution of U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World, and the new policy challenges facing developing nations in the post-Cold War era. The book incorporates the key assessment standards of U.S. foreign policies directed toward critical regions, including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Through this region-by-region analysis, readers will get the information and insight needed to fully understand U.S. policy objectives - especially with regard to economic and security issues in the wake of 9/11 - vis a vis the developing world. The book outlines both successes and failures of Washington, as it seeks to deal with the Third World in a new era of terrorism, trade, and democratic enlargement. It also considers whether anti-Western sentiment in Third World regions is a direct result of U.S. foreign policies since the end of the Cold War.Examines the evolution of US foreign policy toward the Third World, and the policy challenges facing developing nations in the post-Cold War era. This book provides information and insight on US policy objectives, and considers whether anti-Western sentiment in Third World regions is a result of US foreign policies since the end of the Cold War.Chapter 1 American Policies Toward the Global South in the PostCold War, PostBipolar Era, J?rgen R?land, Theodor Hanf, Eva Manske; Chapter 2 American Foreign Policy, Hanns W. Maull; Chapter 3 Decision-Making Processes and Actors in American Foreign Policy Formulation, James M. McCormick; Chapter 4 American Foreign Policy Toward Latin America in the Post-Cold War Era, Howard J. Wiarda; Chapter 5 American Policy in the Post-Cold War Middle East, William B. Quandt; Chapter 6 Southeast Asia and the United States After September 11, 2001, Amitav Acharya; Chapter 7 U.S. Policy Interests in South Asia, Sumit Ganguly, Brian Shoup; Chapter 8 The Revival of Geopolitics, Conrad Schetter, Bernd Kuzmits; Chapter 9 United StlC_