This book surveys the transformation and projection of American power abroad since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It summarizes U.S. handling of the Soviet Union's disintegration and covers the last seventeen years of U.S. interventions and conflicts.

Autorentext
THOMAS HENRIKSEN ****is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.

Inhalt
End of the Berlin Wall and the American Colossus Intervention and Democracy in Central America The Persian Gulf War Globalization, Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti Bosnia: War and Intervention Kosovo: Round Two in the Balkans Containing North Korea, Iraq, and Terrorism Attacking Afghanistan Iraq: War and Occupation Stability and Security Through Democracy?