Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing war on terrorism; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; the feud between Israel and the Palestinians; the widening zone of conflict from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; the global ramifications of North Korea_s nuclear program and China_s claims to Taiwan; Venezuela_s Bolivarian Revolution and the war on drugs in Latin America, the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the US. The book_s goal is to articulate an irenic American strategy intended to resolve, or at least transform, a number of these disputes and conflicts so as to prevent them from further deepening or _widening__and to avert the real possibility of major power confrontation involving both clandestine and overt methods of warfare.

Autorentext

Hall Gardner is Professor of Political Scienceat theAmerican University of Paris.

Inhalt
Introduction: Crying Wolf Once Again? * Triptych of Terrorism * The Un-Coordinated NATO-EU Double Enlargement: Toward the Isolation of Russia? * Iraq: Sinking Deeper into Mesopotamian Quicksand * Iran: Nuclear High Tension and Holocaust Polemics: A New Diplomatic Offensive or Cruise Missile Diplomacy? * Israel and Palestine: Toward Intra-Palestinian Strife, a Third Intifada, Or Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation? *An Ever Widening Zone of Conflict: From Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa * North Korea: Beyond Backdoor Multilateralism * China and Blue Water Dreams: Toward a Sino-Russian Alliance? * Three Dimensions of Montezuma_s Revenge: Hugo Chávez_s Bolivarian Vision, War on Drugs, Illegal Immigration * American Hypertrophy and Strategic Options: Toward a Geostrategy for Global Peace