Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-0-7425-7040-5 • Hardback • March 2011 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
978-0-7425-7042-9 • eBook • March 2011 • $66.50 • (£51.00)
David F. Schmitz is the Robert Allen Skotheim Chair of History at Whitman College and the author, most recently, of The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis.
Introduction: Internationalism and Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy
Chapter 1: Accidental Policymaker
Chapter 2: Constructing a Post-Vietnam War Foreign Policy
Chapter 3: Internationalism Under Fire
Chapter 4: Internationalism Triumphant: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War
Chapter 5: The Gulf War and the New World Order
Chapter 6: Elder Statesman
Few figures dominate the landscape of American diplomacy during the Cold War's latter half like Brent Scowcroft, the only man to serve two different Presidents as National Security Advisor. David F. Schmitz captures Scowcroft's cool analysis and prudent realism as no other scholar, reaching back to combine his early writings with a detailed analysis of Scowcroft's day-to-day management of the Cold War's end from his White House office. This brief and accessible biography makes a fine addition to the library of anyone seeking to understand American foreign policy during years of profound change and beyond.
— Jeffrey A. Engel, Kruse '52 Founders Professor, Texas A&M University
David Schmitz has written a concise, extremely engaging narrative on the important, albeit underappreciated and understudied, American foreign policymaker, Brent Scowcroft. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in modern U.S. foreign policy.
— Kyle Longley, Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University
In this deeply researched book, David Schmitz offers a rich portrait of an important but poorly understood policymaker who has deserved serious attention for a long time. But the book offers much more than biography. Through the lens of Brent Scowcroft's long career, Schmitz deftly analyzes the development of U.S. foreign policy since the Vietnam War.
— Mark A. Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin; author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History